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lands, mixed with sweet briar boughs, and 

 perhaps a clinging, loving clematis, pearl 

 budded, around both. Oh! leave Broad- 

 way, with its ceaseless toilettes and flirta- 

 tions ; let the long piazzas at Saratoga rest 

 for one summer, forget your jewels and 

 flounces — even your beaux — (unless they 

 are lovers,) and come into the real country. 

 Be true, natural women, for once. Take 

 lodgings with some sturdy old farmer, if 

 you can, eat rye bread, and keep in the 

 " lots" all day long. Glove your white 

 hands, and bonnet as deep as you please, 

 but eschew green veils; and if you do not 

 return in October with rosier cheeks, bright- 

 er eyes, and fresher hearts than ever yet 

 commenced a winter's campaign, I give 

 you leave to tear my hair mentally, and 

 call me, even in print, a false and deceitful 

 Wild Flower. 



In the Bushes, May, 1850. 



Here is a crood sermon from fair lips, 

 judging from the delicate hand in which 

 this epistle comes to us. If the post-mark 

 had not betrayed the whereabouts of our 

 " new contributor," (we shall be glad to 

 hear from her again,) the little quotation 

 would ; for nowhere, but in New-England, 

 do country girls quote Latin. 



As to the more important matter — the 



good advice she gives — we ratify it with 

 all our editorial authority. There is such 

 a constant turning of all eyes to the cities 



for all laws pertaining to manners and 

 customs — what to do and what to say — 

 that we are in danger of becoming a nation 

 of cockneys. To find a woman who is in 

 earnest about the country and country life, 

 though she has worn " French shoes," is as 

 refreshing as to find a well of sweet water 

 and a grove of palm trees in the midst of 

 the desert. America, everybody says, is 

 "the paradise of women;" but we are 

 obliged to say, they live in paradise, as if 

 the open air of that desirable climate were 

 contaminated; that is to say, they contrive 

 to take as little of it into their lungs as 

 possible. Alas ! if Mrs. Ellis, or some 

 other "woman of the nineteenth century," 

 — instead of writing books to teach "mo- 

 thers and daughters" what to do to be hap- 

 py — would only persuade Victoria and half 

 a dozen real live Duchesses — anybody, in 

 short, who could and would set the fashion — 

 to come to this happy paradise and demon- 

 strate that ladies can and do walk, and ride, 

 and work in the garden, and become real 

 flesh and blood creatures, it would be a 

 blessing to the nation worth all California, 

 Mexico and Cuba, — yes, and even Spanish 

 South America, in the bargain. Ed. 



COAL CINDERS FOR PEAR TREES. 



BY P. M. C, NEW-YORK. 



Wi: have examined the rows of trees refer- 

 red to in the following communication, and 

 can vouch for the good results recorded 

 therein. Ed. 



Dear Sir — As I notice some discussion 

 going on, respecting the value of mineral 

 manures for fruit trees, I send you the fol- 

 lowing brief notes on this subject : 



Having heard it stated that the sweep- 

 ings and cinders of a blacksmith's shop 

 made an excellent manure for the pear tree, 

 I determined to make trial of it. 



Accordingly, four years ago this spring, 

 I procured three or four cart loads of 'liis 

 material. It was composed of a variety of 

 matters, — cinders of the forge, fine scales 



