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GREENWOOD ILLUSTRATED. 



licar tree, of many sorts in my neighbor- 

 hood, have failed from a want of proper 

 sustenance in the soil. Whether the recipe 

 you gave me, may he improved upon or not, 

 ,1 cannot say ; but I can say, that, so far, 



it has answered perfectly ; and it is my be- 

 lief that every old and enfeebled pear tree, 

 that bears cracked fruit, may be restored to 

 good health and a fine bearing condition by 

 following the same rules. J. B. W. 



REVIEWS. 



Greenwood Illustrated : in a series of Pictu- 

 resque and Monumental Views, from drawings 

 taken on the spot, by James Smillie. The Lite- 

 rary Department by N. Cleveland. New-York. 

 Published by H. Martin. 4to. Part I. and II. 

 What a beautiful work ! is the involuntary 

 exclamation which bursts from one's lips on 

 opening the first two numbers, just issued, 

 of this publication. Fair broad margins, 

 admirably executed line engravings, and 

 scholar-like and refined letter press, all ori- 

 ginal, fresh, and wearing the best stamp of 

 the native mint — this is reallj' refreshing 

 in these days of cheap and flimsy reprints, 

 magazine scrap plates, and wholesale lite- 

 rary robberies. " Greenwood Illustrated," 

 as a tasteful book, (if, as we doubt not, the 

 future numbers bear out the rich promise 

 of these before us,) we consider something 

 to be proud of. We scarcely know any si- 

 milar publication, produced even by luxu- 

 rious and wealthy England, that is superior 

 to it. 



The work is one which appeals strongly 

 to the finer sentiments, and not to the utili- 

 tarian feeling of the day, and we chronicle 

 its advent, in so perfect a form, as one of the 

 many signs of the deep under-current of 

 feeling, which sways silently, yet powerfully, 

 the heart of the nation, showing plainly 

 enough to those who care to observe, that 

 the passion for the "almighty dollar," 

 prominent as it may appear on the sur- 

 face, has not destroyed in the hearts of 

 the people any of that warm current of 



tenderness, love of poetry, nature and art, 

 that distinguish the civilized man from a 

 rude and barbarous inhabitant of theFejee 

 Islands. 



When half a century more shall have 

 elapsed, we imagine it will be found that, 

 in sentiment and art, the Americans evince 

 a feeling as profound, and an aptitude as 

 striking, as now distinguish them for fer- 

 tility of invention and irrepressible energy. 

 It is not, while half a nation is busied in 

 clearing forests, and building up settle- 

 ments, that one can hope for the highest re- 

 sults of civilization in the remainder. 



In the mean time, it is not a little re- 

 markable that the United States possess, at 

 this moment, three rural cemeteries far su- 

 perior to any in the world. We do not 

 state this in any vain spirit of boasting, or 

 on our own information merely. A friend, 

 who has watched the progress of this sub- 

 ject in America, who is greatly interested 

 in rural cemeteries, and who has, within a 

 year, visited Europe almost expressly for 

 the purpose of comparison, assures us that 

 neither Pcre le Chaise, nor any other rural 

 cemetery on the continent, or in England, 

 will, for one moment compare, in all that 

 constitutes the highest elements of beauty 

 in such a spot, with Mount Jjuhurn, Green- 

 wond or Laurel Hill — the three great rural 

 burial places of Boston, New- York and 

 Philadelphia. 



We place Mount Auburn first, because to 



