BIOTA OttlENTALIS, BIOTA PYRAMIDALI8, AND TAXUS ADPRESSA. 



grees. Happiness does not consist in costly elegance ; neatness, comfort in each 

 department, will be first sought by a well-balanced mind; the errors we have only 

 glanced at, it will be easy to avoid when they are pointed out in a friendly spirit ; 

 it should be the duty of friends to prevent the waste we have alluded to, by show- 

 ing to the incipient city farmer, that the expenses about to be incurred may be so 

 great as to prevent the enjoyment of the place after his death, by those for whom, 

 probably, he had hoped he was preparing it ; and even where this is not the case, 

 he may assemble so many niceties, and expensive arrangements, that no widow, 

 however wealthy, would choose to be burdened with maintaining them. As a 

 looker-on, during many years of prosperity among our mercantile and professional 

 friends, we have observed numerous instances of this mistaken policy which con- 

 founds expense with happiness, and have too often seeu the great establishment 

 abandoned, in disgust at gentleman farming. 



After all, the true thing for the country is country life ; city habits, and city 

 furniture, late hours, and large parties, with accompanying headaches, do not 

 prepare the mind to enjoy the song of the robin and the oriole. Sunday quiet, 

 exchanged for a rush of city acquaintance, with their horses to be entertained as 

 well as themselves, are not very acceptable to your cook and ostler ; while a few 

 congenial minds to pass a week, more or less, with you in quiet intercourse, 

 is the sumnmm honum of retired leisure. It will not do to calculate, for the coun- 

 try, on too much enjoyment being crowded into a small space of time, for there, 

 as elsewhere, it is not to be found. Repose, and contemplation on the duties of 

 man's existence here, moderate work, study, and a daily effort to promote the 

 happiness of others, will give more real satisfaction than large mirrors, and a 

 service of gold. 



BIOTA ORIENTALIS, BIOTA BYRAMIDALIS, AND 

 TAXUS ADPRESSA. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE REVUE HORTICOLE. 



My object in publishing this brief article is to clearly establish the difference 

 existing between two species, which, although perfectly distinct, have often been 

 confounded with each other, or regarded merely as varieties. Their frequent 

 culture from the seed during a long series of years, proves this to be the case. 

 M. Trove has long since established this fact. The drawing and accurate descrip- 

 tion of it given by him in the memoir of the Academy of Naples,* under the name 

 of Thuia pyramidalis, leave, in my mind, no doubt upon the subject. 



One of the species, now under consideration, the Biota orientalis (Fig. 1), 

 commonly called the Chinese Thuia, is that generally used in the construction of 

 a blind or screen, as well as, in our cemeteries, to take the place of the cypress. 

 Its straight branches, its numerous and compact ramules, arranged in the shape 



' Mem. Acad. Neap., 35, torn. 3. 



