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cultivated in India, and for commercial 

 purposes, perhaps in greater abundance than 

 is now known in any other country. Bishop 

 Heber states that ' Ghazepoor is celebrated 

 throughout India, for the wholesomeness of 

 its air, and the beauty and extent of its rose 

 gardens.' The rose fields, which occupy 

 many hundred acres in the neighborhood, 

 are described as, at the proper season, ex- 

 tremely beautiful. They are cultivated for 

 distillation, and for making ' altar of roses.' 

 He states, also, that ' many roses were 

 growing in the garden of the Palace of 

 Delhi, and the fountain pipes were carved 

 with images of roses.' Another writer 

 describes in glowing colours the beauty of 

 Ghazepoor — the Gul-istan (rose-beds) of 

 Bengal. ' In the spring of the year, an 

 extent of many miles round the town pre- 

 sents to the eye a continual garden of roses, 

 than which nothing can be more beautiful 

 and fragrant. The sight is perfectly daz- 

 zling ; the plain, as far as the eye can reach, 

 extending in the same bespangled carpet of 

 red and green. The breezes, too, are loaded 

 with the sweet odor, which is wafted far 

 across the river Ganges.' " 



On looking over the " Garden classifica- 

 tion," we are pleased to see that, in most 

 instances, Mr. Paksons's descriptions cor- 

 respond exactly with our own notions. The 

 following character given to the finest of 

 the Bourbon roses, (the class destined, we 



think, to give most satisfaction in this lati- 

 tude,) we fully coincide with : 



" Souvenir de Mahnaison is altogether 

 [all its merits considered] the most perfect 

 and superb rose of this or any other class. 

 It was originated by Beluze, a Frenchman. 

 Its flowers are cupped, and of very perfect 

 form, very double, and with thick velvety 

 petals : they are of the largest size, often 

 four to five inches in diameter, and their 

 colour a delicate blush, with a rich tint of 

 cream. Its large and very luxuriant foliage, 

 compact habit, and flowers of exceeding 

 beauty, render this the very finest rose 

 known." p. 250. 



The volume contains colored plates of 

 two of the new Roses which have elicited 

 most admiration within the last tliree years, 

 La Reine and Chromatella. 



We pluck, from the wreath of poetical 

 gems, which the author has collected to- 

 gether in this volume, the following, by that 

 sweet English songstress, Mrs. Hemans : 



A THOUGHT OF THE ROSE. 



How much of memory dwells within thy bloom, 

 Rose 1 ever \veariiif» beauty for ihy dower ! 

 The bridal day — the festival — the tomb, — 

 Thou hast thy part in eajh, thou stateliest flower: 

 Therefore with thy soft breath come floating by 

 A thousand images of love and grief — 

 Dreams, filled with tokens of mortality; 

 Deep thoughts of all things beautit'ul and brief. 

 Not such thy spells o'er those that hailed thee first, 

 ill the clear light of Eden's gulden day I 

 Tiiere thy rich leaves to crimson glory burst, 

 Liiik'd with no dim remembrance of decay. 

 Rose I for the banquet gathered, and the bier I 

 Rose 1 colored now by human hope or pain ; 

 Surely when death is not, nor change, nor fear. 

 Yet may we meet lliee, joy's own flower, again. 



The Apple Crop. — The inequality of the 

 apple crop in different regions of country, 

 the past season, is remarkable. In central 

 Ohio, in the valley of the Hudson, and on 

 the seaboard, the fruit has been more or 

 less cut off"; while in a large part of western 

 New-York, it has not been so great for 

 several years. A correspondent on Long 

 Island states that in an orchard of twelve 

 acres, he did not obtain half a bushel. 

 Another correspondent in East-Greenwich 



Sfives the foUowinfj account of the singular 

 circumstances attending its destruction m 

 that part of Rhode-Island : " We had the 

 most meagre prospect of apples I have known 

 for years : the rosebugs in myriads attacked 

 the scattering fruits while not larger than a 

 nut, and from ten to twenty might be seen 

 upon a single fruit. They prevailed chiefly 

 on the seaboard ; and fortunately a west 

 wind drove them into the sea in quantities, 

 forming a winrow on shore for miles." T. 



