DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



sought for " Heartsease" within my breast, but 

 found, (oh, dash my " Bachelor's Buttons!") 

 nothing but " Love-Lies- Bleeding!" "Have 

 you seen the beautiful Polly- Anthusi" I was 

 asked one day by a friend. " No," I replied, 

 '■ do point her out ; and may I beg you to in- 

 troduce me?" Of course, he never forgot it, 

 and had great subsequent fun at my expense in 

 inquiring " if I wished an introduction to Mary- 

 Gold, or Hannah-Ga.\\K, or jVis«-Embryanthe- 

 mum, or /o/in-Quil, or J?i7/-Bergia." * * 

 Thus " sans eyes, sans nose," (floriculturally) 

 did I missi)end five-and-twenty years. Then I 

 was converted, and thus, one evening, — 



" 'T was ill the prime of sumner lime, 

 All evening calm and cool," 



I wandered to my favorite garden chair, with a 

 cigar de la-premiere qualite, to digest my din- 

 ner and tlie last new novel. There was, I re- 

 member in both, a considerable proi)ortion of 

 calfs head ; and altogether, having left Oxford, 

 and not being particularly in love at the time, 

 I felt, what the author of the novel aforesaid 

 would term, '^ triste" and '• e/iHwie," doubtful 

 of the veracity of the poet who wrote about 

 "Home, sweet home," and, like Goldsmith's 

 " Traveller,"— 



"Remote, unfriended, melanclioly, jioto." 



In such a mood, and resting my eyes for a mo 

 ment from the wearisome trash, so liberally ad* 

 ministered to the public at half-a-guinea a vo- 

 lume, something flashed before them, and I saw 

 — A Rose! It glowed with such an intensity 

 of vivid crimson ; it shot such sparks of fire 

 from its brilliantly scarlet centre, that I believe 

 it was a special missionary from Flora, and that 

 such a bloom of Rose " D'Aguesseau, Gallica," 

 was never seen before nor since. Away went 

 the cigar, and the still more weedy novel, and 

 I stooped over the flower with all the love and 

 enthusiasm of a neophyte. Mr. Vincent Crumm- 

 ies could not have felt more admiration when he 

 first saw the future Jlrs. C, as '• she stood up- 

 on her head on the butt-end of a spear, sur- 

 rounded by blazing fireworks!" • • • • 

 But, seriou.sly, and passing "from gay to grav^, 

 from lively to severe," I count that hour among 

 the happiest of my life, for I date therefrom so 

 many of its purest jjleasures ; and then first I 

 experienced that indescribable but intense feel- 

 ing of reverential joy, v.-hich the true florist 

 knows when he " looks through nature up to 

 nature's God," and "admiring, cannot but 

 adore." * • » The next evening found me 

 seated as before, but my book was " Rivers on 

 the Rose." S. R. H.—Gard. Chronicle. 



Dnmrstir IJntirrs. 



KiosQUEs OR Summer Houses. —(SeeFrontis- 

 piece.) — Having given iii other numbers, sketch- 

 es of summer houses, or covered garden seats, 

 in rustic work — as the least expensive and most 

 ajjpropriate for themajority of situations, where 

 such structures are needed in grounds, we pre- 

 sent in our Frontispiece this month, a couple of 

 sketches of Kioscjues, from oriental gardens. 

 In the warm climates of the East, the delight 

 of gardens seems to be enjoyed more by looking 

 at them from summer houses, than rambling 

 about in them, and examing them in detail. 

 Accordingly there is a great deal of fancy and 

 considerable taste exercised in the East in these 

 buildings — usually of wood, built in light and 

 pleasing forms. The roof may be covered with 

 canvass, stretched over a wooden frame; when 

 well painted, this forms the most durable cover- 

 ing. Its surface being smoother than one of 

 wood, it may be made tirnanienlal by being 

 prettily tinted in subdued and delicate shades. 

 Summer houses, in a somewliat finished and 

 ate style, like these, are better suited for 

 more ornate grounds of a country residence. 



wliere there is a considerable degree of finish 

 and keeping, than rustic arbors and summer 

 houses. In long walks, structures of this kind 

 afford more agreeable resting places, and, when 

 erected in any fine points of vicAV, they serve 

 the double purpose of calling the attention to 

 the best position for seeing it, and affording 

 shade and rest while enjoying the out-stretched 

 landscape. In all buildings of this kind, the 

 design should be rather simple than complex, 

 and the roof-outline is one which should receive 

 most attention — particularly if the building is 

 seen from any distance. These two sketches 

 of oriental kiosques, may serve as useful hints 

 to our readers, about constructing such decora- 

 tions in their grounds. 



Sepdling ForkignGrape. — TTe received on 

 the 12111 of June, in excellent order, from -Iohn 

 FisK Allen, Esq., of Salem, Mass., some fine 

 samples of forced grapes, and among the rest a 

 new seedling originated by him. This seedling 

 a cross between the Grizzly Frontignan 

 Verdelto, is very rich in flavor, resemblin 



