Commend me to your correspondent, Jeffreys, for that critique in the April 

 Horticulturist of 1856, "Parks against Villages." 



I intend having my cottage in two acres of park, and one acre for cultivation, 

 owing to the peculiarity of its situation. 



I suppose I am wearying you, the only thing that troubles me. Shall I have 

 sun enough on the western slope of the mountain ? and the solid palisade rock 

 comes to the surface in places. Will grapes ripen? 



Only one more remark. I do not intend doing everything at once, but I shall 

 plant one tree at a time, and it thoroughly ; make a little bit of lawn at first, 

 "four bushels to the acre, as I hope to walk upon velvet." 



Truly yours, Albert Blauvelt, Carpenter. 

 12 Grand Street, New York, 



[There is a spirit about this letter and sketch of carpenter Blauvelt that we 

 especially like. We have no doubt he is a good workman and a happy fellow, 

 whose hand it would do anybody good to shake, and whose company never would 

 be dull. Let us hear again from you. — Ed.] 



BIOGKAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE FRAN9OIS 



ANDRE MICHAUX. 



BY ELIAS DURAND. 



(CONCLUBED FKOSI PAGE 503.) 



[From the Transactions of tlie American Philosophical Society, Volume XI. p. xvii. Read 



December 5, 1856.] 



MiCHAUx remained in Charleston until the first of March, 1803, when he embarked 

 again for France. On his arrival in Paris, he made every effort in hastening the 

 publication of his father's Histoire des chevies d'Amerique, which had been printed 

 in 1801, but the plates of which had not yet been completed. He attended also 

 to the publication of the Flora Boreali Americana, under the supervision of 

 Claude Richard, an eminent botanist and a superior writer. Both these works 

 were finally announced to the scientific world in the years 1803 and 1804, and were 

 eagerly expected by those who took an interest in the vegetable productions of 

 North America. 



In the latter year, Michaux published his Journey to the West of the Alleghany 

 Mountains, and the following year his memoir Sur la Naturalisation des Arbres 

 Forestiers de V Amerique du Nord. In this memoir, addressed to the Central 

 Society of Agriculture of Paris, of which he was a prominent member, he en- 

 deavored to prove the great advantage which might accrue to France from the 

 acclimation of better trees than those which her native forests actually possess, 

 and of such, principally, as might succeed in soils too poor for any of the French 

 trees to thrive in. In support of his opinion he pointed out the swampy lands of 

 France as producing no wood of any value, whilst similar lands in America are 

 covered over with noble and valuable trees, such as the Red Elm, Willow Oak, 

 White Cedar, White and Black Cyprus, &c. He likewise pointed at the sandy 

 and certain cretaceous soils of France as giving growth to nothing but drawlish 

 and insigificant pines, while the equally arid lands of the Southern States produce 

 an abundance of the Live Oak, a tree exceedingly valuable in naval architecture, 

 and which might also succeed in the sandy maritime soils of the southern dep 

 ments of France. 



