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Great Pan is dead ! but Diana of tlie Eftasions shall live and 

 be worshipped for ever ! Be the reign of flapdoodle eternal ! 

 Yet, in such wise, we — Horticulturists, Pomologists, Grangers ! or 

 simple Terrcectdtui'ists, innocent even of Initiation ! the name 

 matters not so long as j'ou can smell the Mari-gold ! are reduced 

 for development to pedigree, after all ! 



Vanished forever from the view of the Pomologist is Yan 

 Mons, with his theory ! Worse than idle is the counsel of Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder: and ultimate perfection from hybridization, or 

 cross-fertilization, might as well be dismissed for the idle dream 

 of senility. Pedigree ! 



" The blood of bulls and of goats : and the ashes of a heifer sprink- 

 ling the unclean ;" 



are elevated upon the pedestal : and that which was before in- 

 cense, and an offering of adoration, is transformed into the very- 

 God. 



" The leaves of the English Elms on Boston Common are as fresh, 

 to-day, as they were in June." 



Score one for the SangrS Azul ! But the English Oaks, on 

 Elm Park, in Worcester, are as dead as the Georges, — if more 

 fragrant in decay : while their American congeners, in the same 

 bleak exposure, open wide their arms in deflance of Boreas and 

 the gale. Likewise the immigrant, if tilled with vital force, sur- 

 vives to multiply and replenish the land. The inspiration, — " on 

 his native heath," — may have been English Fog, or Mountain 

 Dew ! but the clear and exhilarating skies of America would 

 quickly dissipate either. Insist upon sound stocks ! to commence 

 withal. Hesist disease and repel parasites ! — to continue. Put 

 faith in wholesome nutrition ! allowing the health-giving current 

 free circulation and tolerating neither impediment nor dam in 

 the veins or arteries : and your Elms, as your Oaks ; whether 

 discovered in the primeval forest by Miles Standish and Edward 

 Winslow ; or imported, as saplings, by Brian Boroighme ; will 

 alike grow up to become standards of stateliness and strength ; — 

 rioting in vigorous life ; and tossing their wealth of foliage to a 

 sunshine and breeze that laugh to mockery an " English Fog." 

 Hercules may have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena ; and 



