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Aster. This is so numerous a family, that during autumn scarcely any localitj'- or soil 

 is without its representative. Its colors are equally varied, exhibiting almost every color 

 except yellow. As they are all very hardy, and bear cultivation well, many of them may 

 worthily occupy some vacant corner, even in a small garden. They remain bright and 

 beautiful, after frosts of considerable severity. 



Gentiana crinita, (Fringed Gentian.) Nature seems not to have bestowed all her fa- 

 vors on spring or summer, but to have reserved this one of her most unique productions, 

 for dull and sober autumn. The bright blue color of its petals, their delicately fringed 

 edges, and the fairy-like twist of its buds, always render it one of our favorites. Other 

 species of gentian are found with it, in cold, damp places, but they resemble it onl \ in its 

 rich blue color. 



And now, kind friends, as we gather these last flowers of autumn, how changed are our 

 emotions from those which we felt, as full of hope and joy we culled the first blossoms of 

 spring. It is with a kind of melancholy satisfaction, that we prolong the pleasures of 

 summer, by collecting these last delicate productions of nature, even while the rude blasts 

 of autumn are sweeping by, and remind us of coming winter, in which all vegetation must 

 sleep until its frosts are dispelled by the genial breath of spring, again to cheer us with 

 their varied forms of life and beauty. How plainly typical of our final rest and journey 

 hence to the spirit land, where, with new powers, we hope to spend a blest eternity in ad- 

 miring and praising the perfect works of our Creator. T. S. Gold. 



Cream Hill, Ct., March 3, 185L 



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BY B. DESPORTES, ANGERS, FRANCE. 



Hon. a. J. Downing — Sir : Permit me, through your estimable journal to make known 

 a fact of the utmost importance to your countrymen, who import trees from Europe. And 

 this communication is the more valuable from not being mere theory, but the result of 

 actual experience. 



In the spring of 1850, M. Andre Lerot, nurserymen of Angers, in France, imported 

 from an American nurseryman, a large number of fruit trees, evergreens, plants, &c. The 

 season was rather too far advanced when the order was sent, and when the trees arriv- 

 ed at their destination, they appeared to have suffered so much from the length of their 

 journey, and to be in such a dry condition, that if they had been offered for sale, not a 

 single buyer could have been found for them. But the intelligent owner was not easily 

 discouraged. He had them unpacked, and taken to the bank of a stream which runs 

 through his grounds. There he had a wide ditch dug, in which he placed the pear trees, 

 covering them eight or ten inches deep with sand, which extended even upwards among the 

 branches and over the roots, so as to cover them completely. In this condition they re- 

 mained fifteen days, and on examination he found they were doing very well; he was not 

 able to plant them until six days later, being at the time much engaged with other busi- 

 ness; when he drew them from the earth they were in full blossom, and the roots were 

 covered with new white fibres, nearly an inch long. The ground they were planted in 

 was trenched and enriched with stable manure. Fearing that the roots were too small and 

 feeble to nourish such long branches at that advanced season, he thought it prudent 

 shorthen in the trees for six or eight inches. Only two of them were lost; and alth 



