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over whose broadspread leaves the little plover glides, with- 

 out impressing a ripple on the glossy brink, gives me more 

 pleasure than I could derive from any view of the ocean, 

 bounded only by the horizon. 



Water needs the accompaniment of field and wood to 

 form a picture that is agreeable to the eye. Without such 

 adjuncts, it is like the sky when it has no clouds, and is void 

 of all pleasing suggestions. The pleasure of angling on the 

 banks of a river or a lake, is greatly magnified by the pros- 

 pect of the agreeable combination of wood and water scenery 

 that surrounds us. The beauty of an island is like that of 

 the lake ; and it is hard to say which of the two affects the 

 spectator with the most delight, though I am inclined to be- 

 lieve that the majority would decide in favor of the island. 

 The island, especially if there be a little cottage upon it, is 

 suggestive of a multitude of pleasing fancies connected with 

 rural life and retirement.. In this case, we think not so much 

 of the difficulty of gaining access to town, or even of com- 

 ing on shore, as of the peaceful seclusion it seems calculated 

 to atford. The lake suggests no such ideas : it is chiefly at- 

 tractive by its own beautiful sheen of crystal water, by its 

 association with boat excursions in serene afternoons or moon- 

 light evenings, and with rural pleasures connected with 

 the scenes on its shore. 



THE CATTAWISSA RASPBERRY. 



BY JOSHUA PEIRCE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Cattawissa raspberry is a native variety entirely new 

 and distinct in its characteristics, in respect to its manner of 

 bearing and the period of maturing its fruit, which promise 

 to make it an object of general cultivation. From its appear- 

 ance and mode of growth, 1 have no doubt but it is a seedling 

 produced from the common wild blackberry of the country, 

 which grows in great abundance about the region where it 

 originated ; although I cannot learn that any other varieties, 



