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tied to its support, and no luxuriant growth 

 has to be restrained by the hand of the culti- 

 vator, still this naonth too brings its work to 

 the gardener. It is now that the autumnal 

 transplanting of the shrubs takes place, and 

 most practical gardeners seem to prefer this 

 season to the spring for these removals. Suckers 

 of the rose, the lilac, and other trees are to be 

 taken, and a pleasure is felt in the culture of 

 these plants, 



" Which, save himself who trains them, none can feel." 



]\Iuch has now to be done too in the greenhouse : 



" The surplus branch 

 Must fly before the knife ; the withered leaf 

 Must he detached, and where it strews the floor 

 Swept with a woman's neatness, breathing else 

 Contagion, and disseminating death." 



The interest which has in all periods of time 

 been taken in the culture of plants, would of 

 itself prove that the care of a garden is calcu- 

 lated to afford to many persons a source of 

 delightful enjoyment. This is confirmed, too, 

 when we remember that when God planned the 

 earthly happiness of man, he placed him in a 

 garden, in which were made to grow, not only 

 ** every tree that was good for food," but such 

 also as were " pleasant to the sight;" while the 

 employment of our first parents in their state 

 of innocence, was to " dress the garden and to 

 keep it." 



The odour of the chrysanthemum is now 

 very sweet, and it seems as expressive of the 

 autumn, as the violet is of spring. Several 



