do so. A study of tlie peculiarities and forms of trees in both their summer and 

 winter aspects, is one of the most agreeable, instructive and pleasing occupations ; it 

 gives pleasure wherever we are. In travelling, when time is not allowed to dip into 

 geological or botanical research, every tree you pass and can name, is recognized as 

 an old friend. 



A beautiful tree, considered in point of form only, must have a certain correspond- 

 ence of parts, and a comparative regularity and proportion, while inequality and ir- 

 regularity alone will give a tree a picturesque appearance, more especially if the 

 effects of age and decay, as well as of accident are conspicuous : when, for instance, 

 some of the limbs are shattered, and the broken stump remains in the void space; 

 when others, half twisted round by the winds, hang downwards; when others again 

 shoot in an opposite direction, and perhaps some large bough projects sideways from 

 below the stag-headed top, and then as suddenly turns upwards, and rises above it. 

 The general proportion of such trees, whether tall or short, thick or slender, is not 

 material to their character as picturesque objects; but where beauty, elegance, and 

 gracefulness are concerned, a short thick proportion will not give an idea of those 

 qualities. There are certainly a great variety of pleasing forms and proportions in 

 trees, and different men have different predilections, just as they have with respect 

 to their own species ; but no person is to be found, who, if he observed at all, was 

 not struck with the gracefulness and elegance of a tree, whose proportion was rather 

 tall, whose stem had an easy sweep, but which returned again in such a manner that 

 the whole appeared completely poised and balanced, and whose boughs were in same 

 degree pendent, but towards their extremities made a gentle curve upwards, as in 

 many specimens of the Norway fir : if to such a form you add fresh and tendex fo- 

 liage and bark, you have every quality assigned to beauty. 



EVENING PARTY APPLE.* 



BY W. D. BRINCKLE, M. D. 



IZE, small. Is of an inch long, by 2f broad; Form, round- 

 ish oblate ; Skin, nearly covered with red, in stripes on a 

 whitish-yellow ground, rich whitish-yellow at the eye, nu- 

 /^^* ^^^V^^^^^^^ merous light russet dots ; Stem, | of an inch long, by j'j 

 thick, inserted in a wide, deep cavity, occasionally russet- 

 ed ; Calyx, small, closed, set in a moderately deep, slightly 

 plaited basin ; Core, medium ; Seed, grayish brown, short, 

 plump, obtuse, ? of an inch long, \ wide, \ thick ; Flvsli, 

 yellowish white, tender, juicy; Flavor, pleasantly saccha- 

 ^i'-^ rine and spicy; Quality, "very good" if not "best;" 

 Maturity, January to March; Wood, young shoots reddish, old wood grey. 



[This apple, from its appearance no less than its qualities, is destined to become a 

 itc] 



*See 



