154 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



species which gives it its true value ; this consists of a jet 

 black delicate juicy berry, as large as a black currant, and 

 produced in the utmost profusion ; so that in the private gar- 

 dens of Valparaiso the plant is grown as a common article of 

 dessert, and is highly esteemed ; as it well may be, for it is 

 no exaggeration to say that it ranks in merit with the Peach 

 and Green Gage plum. Upon this point, however, we shall 

 have more to say hereafter. Mention is made of it now with 

 reference merely to its power of resisting cold." 



We have just received a few specimens of this Eugenia, 

 and shall report upon it after a fair trial. 



MARCH. 



Spring has arrived, but Winter has not fled : 



The cattle still are housed within their shed : 



The brook is often hushed that ripples by : 



The northern sides of hills are cold and dry: 



The frozen streams are hardly yet released, 



But morning blushes earlier in the east, 



And fairer hues are on the face of things. 



Small birds have just commenced their revellings. 



The woodlands are less silent, and the rocks 



Echo the louder bleating of the flocks. 



The kine are more loquacious on the hills. 



That sparkle with the flash of new-born rills. 



All seasons rule the day : but Spring moves on : 



With each new morning some new light is won. 



The northern winds are petulant and rude, 



And fill the day with swift vicissitude. 



But Winter's landmarks daily disappear. 



With ice and snow before the waking year. W. F. 



oiit^Ij ^0ssip. 



Changes in Plants. — I have been so vigorously attacked, both in your 

 own journal and elsewhere, for having asserted, in substance, that a plant 

 bearing abortive stamens under one circumstance, may have them fully de- 

 veloped under another, as in the instance of the strawberry, that I was 

 much pleased to find you do me so much justice as to note the circum- 

 stances contained under the above caption, in your last number. As you 



