take its culture. He also informs us, which we oniittotl to state, that the atmos- 

 pluM-o is damp, and very frequently fogiry in the region in which it grows. 



Tlio narrator terminates his account by a violent diatribe against Mr. Lindley, 

 whom he does not spare. By what right has the latter taken the liberty to rob the 

 Americans of their (Jreat tree, in order to dedicate it, under the name of Welling- 

 tonia, to a hero with whom America holds no communion? The citizens of the 

 United States should boldly assert their rights ; like the English, they have a hero to 

 immortalize by the name of a tree, that hero is Washington, who from ocean to 

 ocean spread liberty over the New World. Without regard to the laws of botanical 

 nomenclature, the Great tree should henceforth be called Washin(/tonia Californica, 

 or at least, if it be merely a Taxodium, T. WasMngtonium. 



We regret that the wish of this patriotic doctor cannot be fulfilled ; but the laws of 

 botany are stern and merciless ; the ''Great tree" will be the namesake of neither 

 the great citizen of America nor of the hero of England; despite its majestic pro- 

 portions, it must be content with the barbarous and almost trifling name of Sequoia. 

 It would certainly have been desirable to attach the name of Washington to this 

 prince of American trees; this talisman might probably have preserved it from the 

 brutal vandalism which will soon cause its species to disappear, if the Government, 

 or at least the enlightened men of the place, do not soon take it under their protection. 

 ]Moreover, whose fault is it, that the Sequoia be so named ? Since it is a native of 

 America, the Americans should have discovered and named it. Were they not so 

 obstinately bound to the auriferous soil, and less solicitous for the sensualities of 

 matter, and had they occasionally raised their eyes to Heaven, they would have dis- 

 covered this wonder of creation, and not have been forestalled by Europeans. In- 

 stead, therefore, of indulging in useless recriminations, let them learn to preserve 

 these noble monuments of nature from destruction; that will be glory enough, and a 

 glory of which no one will think of depriving them. Naudin. 



Myrtles. — "Mr. Jefifrey," writes Sydney Smith to the Countess Grey, "wanted to 

 persuade me that myrtles grew out-of-doors in Scotland, as here. Upon cross-examina- 

 tion, it turned out that they were prickly, and that many had been destroyed by the 

 family donkey." 



Not UxXCOmmon.— "My situation is as follows : I am engaged," says thewitty clergyman, 

 " in agriculture, without the slightest knowledge of the art ; I am building a house without 

 an architect ; and educating a son without patience ! Nothing short of my sincere affec- 

 tion for Jeffrey, and pity for his transatlantic loves, should have induced me to draw my 

 goose-quill." 



Happiness.— To Jeffrey he writes : I am truly glad to hoar of your pleasure in your 

 little girl and your chateau. The haunts of happiness are varied, and rather unaccoun- 

 table ; but I have more often seen her among little children, and home firesides, and in 



untry houses, than any where else — at least, I think so. 



