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a friend in Paris. I have sent some of the seeds to the American Oriental 

 Society, of your city, of which I am a member, for the Horticultural Socie- 

 ty. I have some fruit kernels, and other seeds, which I will send you from 

 Smyrna, with a few of this same Morina, and I beg you to try it. The cli- 

 mate of Erzeroom is cold, and the soil, where it grows, poor and stony ; 

 and on that side near its base, there is a beautiful crimson flower, the stalk 

 about two feet and a half high. It is an annual. I will try and procure 

 for you some cherry seeds from Cerassum, the country on the shores of the 

 Black Sea, from which place cherries are said to have their origin. I do 

 not hope to furnish you with any thing better than you already possess, but 

 to give you some varieties. — Yours, J. P. B, Legation of the United 

 States of America, Constantinople, Oct. 8, 1847." 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



The November of 1847. — This month will long be remembered for its 

 unusual mildness. For the most part, the weather has been delicious, so 

 unlike to usual November skies, that we seem, thus far, to have had scarce- 

 ly any of that dreadful month, when cold and dull-blue clouds and desolat- 

 ing winds mostly obtain. October and November seem to have changed 

 their relations to autumn during the present fall ; and, though I have no 

 means of ascertaining the mean temperature, yet, from impression, I should 

 give the preference to the latter in regard to genial atmosphere. From 

 some rude notes at hand, I perceive that Colchicum autumnale was in 

 full flower in the garden on the 20th September, which may be considered 

 the last decidedly autumn flower, if we except Sedum Sieboldn, whose 

 lu(h are forming from the latter part of July, and is variable in its bloom- 

 ing, and therefore not so good a test of autumnal inflorescence. The cool 

 and easterly weather had been so unfavorable to the Isabella grape, that a 

 fine healthy vine on the south side of the house, in an excellent situation, 

 had not nearly matured its fruit on the 16th October, and was decidedly in- 

 jured by a frost of the preceding night. The same vine produced very 

 finely ripened bunches when gathered on the 13th October of the preced- 

 ing year. As early as the sixteenth of September, frosts were perceptible 

 in several places, and, on the sixteenth of October, they were -so severe as 

 to kill dahlias black, and to produce ice. October finished itself pretty 

 much after the same style, and an apparent cessation to all further vege- 

 tation was the result. November dissipated these views, and its first week 

 reminded us of Indian Summer. From the 21st to 29th, the weather was 

 similar, and the mildness of the season, aided by refreshing rains, awakened 

 Flora from her sleep. While walking in the woods of Duxbury, on a 

 pleasant afternoon of November seventeenth, several fully expanded flowers 

 of Epigas'a repens occurred ; and, in sunny spots, the buds seemed ready to 

 burst forth into premature bloom, the delicate rosy tints of the corols dis- 

 tinctly visible, indeed as forward as they are usually in the middle of April. 

 In the gardens, on the twenty-fifth, pansies, ( Fiola tricolor,) were not un- 



