154: APPENDIX. 



give something to know it. The reason I speak of that 

 here, is, "that I have asked a professor of theology, said 

 to be well posted in " Genesis" affairs, and he told me 

 he knew nothing about, but suggested, with an appear- 

 ance of sound logic, that our fraternity, gardeners, po- 

 mologists, and other " sui generis " of that description, 

 ought to be more apt to elucidate that enigma than 

 theologians, who only concern themselves with God's 

 direct affairs, and not with such accessory trifles as 

 knowing the names of what he grew in his country 

 seat. I really feel much disappointed, for I expected 

 to be able to get the right name of that apple, or orange, 

 that tempted our first mother, and communicate it to 

 you. Some one has hinted to me that that apple 

 might have been an orange, but I do not believe it. 

 I know there was, in old time, a celebrated garden 

 called the " Garden of Hesperides," where the apples 

 were oranges ! That substitution of one name for an- 

 other might have answered for the Olympic Gods, but 

 it will not do for us practical profanes and rather scep- 

 tical although we have in our mottled fraternity some 

 fellows that are apt to try to make us swallow pills 

 of aloes and rhubarb ', for aperitive lozenges, and they 

 often succeed, but you may be assured that it is not 

 for those tricksters that I am puzzling my mind to 

 let them know the name of the Eden's apple. They 

 might try to change its name and sell it to some inno- 



