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wings, and backward flew, home again. How very, very humble ! A twinge so slight, and yet 

 so keen as to almost start a tear, marked the cliange in the spi.it cf my dream. Oh dear! when 

 will our home be all of this ? When I might enjoy it so exquisitely, why can't I have it now ? 

 Thou spirit of impatience, — come here to disturb my amiable equanimity — to get the better of 

 my pliilosophy and my contentment, — begone ! That Athenian, with all his surroundings, is not 

 to be envied. I'll warrant there might be some "internal care" sometimes "written on his brow," 

 as on mine this moment ; but on my brow it never has rested, and it shall not now. I seized 

 my lamp, slipped softly down stairs and brightened the fire, exclaiming — "I'll write him a letter 

 this moment, and ask him if he dare be so audacious as to assert himself half as happy and con- 

 tented as we of this "Woodside cottage ?" Just here my benevolence and kindness were aroused 

 as I thought of Atticus stricken with a dangerous malady, and my heart and mind were taxed for 

 ingenious contrivances for his relief. The bright thought soon came; and I revolved it over and 

 over, till I came to think it vastly sage. But though I know your anxious curiosity is all on the 

 qui vlve, you must have patience ; for the unfolding even of my simple plan will require another 

 letter. Yours in the bonds of sympathy, Elsie. — Woodside, WauJccsha, Wis. 



The Alpine Heights. — The pen and the pencil may attempt, and not unsuccessfully, to repro- 

 duce the soft gradations of the beautiful or the abrupt contrasts of the picturesque ; but they are 

 alike powerless and paralyzed before the awful grandeur of the Aljane heights, where there is 

 neither life nor motion ; where a stern, unsmiling sublimity has moulded every form, and stamped 

 u])on the scene the frown of a perpetual winter. Tliere is nothing in the ordinary aspect of nature 

 that prepares us for what we see when we have entered the region of perpetual snow. Here is 

 no hum of insects, no rustle of foliage, no pulse of vitality. There is no provision for animal life 

 in the pitiless granite, ice, and snow, that make up the landscape. The solitary eagle, whose slow 

 circling form is painted on the dark sky above, seems but a momentary presence, like ourselves, 

 and not a part of the scene. Nature is no longer a bounteous and beneficent mother, but a stern 

 and awful power, before which vre bow and tremble ; and the eartli ceases to be a man's farm 

 and garden, and becomes only a part of the solar system. — Hillard's Italy. 



^nsbjcrs to Corrcsponitnt^. 



(T. B., Trumansburgh, N. Y.) Peai'.s for Puofitaele Orchard Culture. — BartJctf, Virgalicu 

 or White Doyenne, Gray Doyenne, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Flemislh Beauty, Swan's Orange, Glout 

 Morcean, Vicar of Winkfield, Lawrence, and Easter Bcurre. For two varieties only, we recom- 

 mend the two first. For a profitable orchard on Quince stocks. White Doyenne, Beurre Diel, 

 Duchcsse d'Angouleme, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Glout Morceau, Vicar of Winkfield, Caftilhte, and 

 Pound. Yov ihvc.Qya,v\Qi\Qs on\y, Louise Bonne de Jersey, White Doyenne, awH Vicar of Winkfield. 



Blight. — "We cannot say that any varieties are free from attacks of this malady, or that any 

 arc less liable to it than others, though circumstances occasionally favor that belief. As a gen- 

 eral thing, it is less fatal to slow-growing trees and varieties than to those of very rapid and 

 rank growth. 



(C. M. G., Upper Lisle, Broome county, K Y.) New Varieties of Flowers. — These are pro- 

 duced in two waj's: first, accidental sports and variations, which, in some cases, are permanent ; 

 and, second, by cross impregnation. New varieties of Tulips, Hyacinths, Datlbdils, Dahlias, 

 Fuchsias, Geraniums, Verbenas, Ac, are all raised from seeds. Thousands of seedling Dahlias may 

 be grown and flowered, without obtaining even one fine double flower worth saving; the same 

 may be said of all the others. 



ANGES will bear without being grafted or budded, but net until well advanced in age 

 uit mav be W'orthless, 



