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ever can do. As it is seasonable, perhaps its appearance ia the Horticulturist may be acceptable, 

 and here it is : 



"Warily, therefore, and with prudent heed, 

 He seeks a favor'd spot ; that where he builds 

 The agglouicrateil pile his frame may front 

 Tlie sun's meridian disk, and at the back 

 Enjoy close shelter, wall, or reeds, or hedge 

 Impervious to the wind. First he bids spread 

 Dry fern or littcr'd hay, that may imbibe 

 The ascending damps ; then leisurely impose, 

 And lightly shaking it with agile hand 

 From the full fork, the saturated straw. 

 What longest binds the closest forms secure, 

 The shapely side, that as it rises takes, 

 By just degrees, an overhanging breadth. 

 Sheltering the base with its projected eaves: 

 The uplifted frame, compact at every joint, 

 And overlaid with clear translucent glass, 

 lie settles next upon the sloping mound. 

 Whose sharp declivity shoots off secure 

 From the dash VI pane the deluge as it falls, 

 lie shuts it close, and the first labor ends. 

 Thrice must the voluble and restless Earlh 

 Spin round upon her axle, ere the warmth, 



Slow gathering in the midst, through the square mass 

 Diffused, attain the surface: when, behold! 

 A pestilent and most corrosive steam, 

 Like a gross fog Boctian, rising fast, 

 And fast condensing on the dewy sash, 

 Asks egress ; which obtained, the overcharg'd 

 And drencliM conservatory breatlics abroad. 

 In volumes breathing slow, the vapor dank ; 

 And, purified, rejoices to have lost 

 Its foul inhabitant. But to assuage 

 The impatient fervor, which at first conceives 

 Within its reeking bosom, threatening death 

 To his young hopes, requires discreet delay. 

 Experience, slow preceptress, teaching oft ; 



The way to glory by miscarriage foul. 

 Must prompt him, and admonish how to catch 

 The auspicious moment, when the temper'd heat. 

 Friendly to vital motion, may afford 

 Soft fomentation, and invite the seed. 

 The seed selected wisely, plump, and smooth,"' &c. 

 -Coivper's Tank— The Garden. 



Indeed, Mr. Editor, we have left the good old books our fathers read, for trash, litter trash ; 

 for books from which we neither learn to live or die, rationally. Let me quote another passage, 

 descriptive of the retired country gentleman, much to my taste : 



" How various his employments whom the world 

 Calls idle ; and who justly in return 

 Esteems that busy world an idler too ! 

 FviendK, 7jooks, a garden, and perhax)S his pen, 

 Delightful industry enjoy'd at home. 



And nature in her cultivated trim 

 Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad — 

 Can he want occupation who has these ? 

 Will he be idle who has much t' enjoy Y^—Ihid. 



Giant Asparagus. — In a late number of the Horliculturisf, we told all our friends who read 

 that publication (and we regret the want of taste in those who do not) how we took some miser- 

 able, starved, sickly, dying, roots of the Pie-plant, and by a little nursing until they got some 

 better, and a liberal supply of good wholesome food, made them the wonder and admiration oi 

 all who saw their product. How much healtliful comfort this little painstaking has given us we 

 can not justly say, but we know that it has been a great deal at a very cheap cost; and every 

 body else can have it, if they please, just as cheap as we do. 



There is another plant, seen to be sure in almost every garden spot in the land — sometimes 

 presenting only one or two straggling stalks, as if it were introduced only for variety — and again 

 in small plots, so diminutive in size that its identity is almost lost in its dwarfisbness : and yet it 

 is so agreeable to the taste, that every body admires it ; and so liealthfid witlial, that every body 

 should be provided with it, and which is equally susceptible of improvement, and in more ways 

 than one amply compensates for all outlays in its cultivation. Tiiis is Asparagus, an article once 

 supposed by many to be valueless, unless its flexible stalk was employed to ornament the mirror, 

 or hang up in the best room, to attract the flies in their sumiiicr visitation. 



We liave experimented with this plant for our personal gratification. Tlic success was all we 

 could desire ; and if any one will be benefitted by the result, we are hajipy to give it to him. 

 In tlie oubtart, we spaded the ground, well manured, deeply and tlmrougldy. The roots — puny, 

 arved things — were then set sufiicieiitly deep to protect tlu-m from droutli and upheaval by 

 frosty and salt enough to whiten the groimd thrown ov -r the bed. Tiie salt in due time 



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