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THE FLOWERS PERSONIFIED. 



Our readers will not consider these hints 

 as scientific formulas for manuring these 

 several fruit trees. They are only rough 

 recipes for most easily making composts, 

 to supply the elements which science has 

 demonstrated to be most essential to the 

 growth, health and productiveness of some 

 of our leading fruits. We give them, to 

 enable those who, like our correspondent, 

 are beginners, to feed their orchards and 

 fruit gardens with appropriate food, without 

 the danger of destroying their trees. To 



give positive directions for special maTiures, 

 it would be necessary to have an analysis 

 of each particular tree, as well as each par- 

 ticular soil, on which it is to be grown. 

 But since we now know what their general 

 organization requires, we can furnish to 

 soils naturally deficient the wanting ele- 

 ments. The trees themselves, — this being 

 done, will speedily take up the necessary 

 food and assimilate it ; giving us back a 

 reward in healthy growth, and abundant 

 and excellent crops. 



REVIEW. 



The Flowers Personified — being a translation 

 of " Les Fleurs Jlnimees ;" by N. Cleveland, 

 Esq. Illustrated with steel engravings, beauti- 

 fully coloured. (Nos. 1 to 14, 8vo. Price 25 

 cents each.) New- York : published by R. Martin, 

 170 Broadway. 1847. 



Here is one of the prettiest fancies, most 



charmingly carried out, that ever entered 



the imagination of a writer of tasteful and 



entertaining books. 



The ancients have long ago told us, that 

 on certain great occasions, mortals were 

 changed by the gods into flowers ; but it 

 has been reserved for one of the most bril- 

 liant and witty of modern French writers — 

 M. Kake, to write the history of the new 

 myths, to tell us how the flowers have been 

 transformed into mortals, and the whole 

 story of their joys and sorrows. 



We cannot better unravel this piquant 

 idea, or convey to our readers a notion of 

 the delicate and graceful style in which the 

 work is written, than by quoting the fol- 

 lowing introductory remarks : 



"Learned antiquaries have ascertained 

 and plainly described the spot where the 

 earthly paradise was situated. We know 

 with what trees those celestial grounds were 

 planted, and what countries adjoined them 



on the north, the south, the east, and the 

 west. Thanks to these researches, the to- 

 pography of Eden would appear to advan- 

 tage in the charts of the Land Registry, or 

 among the files of the Recorder of Deeds. 



" No philosopher has busied himself in 

 determining exactly the geographical site 

 of the place occupied by the Flower Fairy. 

 We are left, in this respect to mere con- 

 jecture. Some place it in the kingdom of 

 Cashmere ; others say it is southeast from 

 Delhi. While some think it is on the table 

 land of the Himalaya, others suppose it to 

 be situated in the centre of the island of 

 Java ; in the midst of some vast forest, 

 which, by its labarynthine and prolific ve- 

 getation, protects it from unseasonable vi- 

 sits, and from the research of exploring 

 travellers. 



" We alone are acquainted with the route 

 to the Flower Land ; but a solemn oath for- 

 bids us to reveal it. The newspapers would 

 get there as soon as we could; and God 

 only knows to what condition they would 

 soon bring that unhappy country, which as 

 yet has experienced no revolution, but the 

 one which we are about to describe. 



