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cent for an evergreen, ever-bearing golden purnpkin ? 

 and they would find customers ! ! 



Gardeners have also acted remarkably well in the 

 city of Babylon under the reign of the Queen Semi- 

 rainis, to lay out the famous suspended gardens of that 

 city, where stood the celebrated Tower of Babei, 

 whence came the confusion of languages. I have 

 never heard of the peach, and apricot, plum trees, 

 etc., etc., trained as espaliers on the surface of those 

 immense walls, 60 miles in circumference, 87 feet 

 thick, and 350 high ! If the gardeners of that time 

 have grown trees to cover those walls on the whole 

 surface, I must congratulate them, and own that they 

 have distanced our modern gardeners by as many 

 miles ahead as their walls were higher than ours only 

 I should like to know how high were the ladders they 

 used to train the trees ? I fancy I hear some fellows 

 say : Mr. Menand ! we like jokes, but you carry them 

 too far. Now, my friends ! I wish you to understand 

 me, I have not measured those walls, as you, I do not 

 believe they were so high. But I have copied those 

 descriptions from what you name "Holy Scrip, 

 tures " ! ! ! If you do not believe in them I can not 

 help it, that is your business. Only I will pass the re- 

 marks, that if you disbelieve " Holy Writs " you will 

 compromise your salvation ? This incredulity of yours 



