Editorial Miscellany. 123 



Extract from a " Georgic about Trees," read before the Young Men's 

 Association at Elmira, N. Y., by Professor Edward North, of Hamilton 

 College : 



Trees furnish us with fuel, timber, fruit; 

 Yet not for this alone I press their suit. 

 They have their language, sympathies and voice: 

 With hearts that leap for joy they can rejoice. 

 And mourn with mourning hearts ; if happy thought, 

 Or hope, or love returned, or good deeds wrought, 

 With softest sunshine fill your soul and eye. 

 To all this sunshine woods give glad reply. 

 These joys, for which tongue hath no utterance. 

 Are voiced in music by the streamlet's dance; 

 Feelings that struggle at your lip for words, 

 From smiling trees are syllabled by birds; 

 Or should bereavement, pain, ingratitude. 

 People your breast with sorrow's sullen brood 

 Of wretched thoughts, and human accents rasp 

 Your wounded spirit, and the proffered grasp 

 Of friendship's hand seera icy cold and hard, — 

 With no such rudeness will your peace be marred, 

 When to the hushed and twilight grove you wend. 

 For friendship's self without the selfish friend. 

 From whispering leaves, and insects' hum, and grass 

 Fragrant beneath your footsteps, there shall pass 

 Such soothing influence to your breast, that ere 

 Your griefs are told they turn to holiest cheer. 



At the Show at Framinghara, Sept. 19, we saw upon the tables a fine- 

 looking grape, a little lighter in color than the Catawba, some of the 

 bunches quite compact, but generally somawhat straggling, and the 

 berries and bunches of good size. They were raised and handed in by 

 James W. Clark, Esq., of Framingham. He says the vine originated in 

 his garden five years ago, from the seed, and was transplanted into a 

 shaded and moist border. The vine grows vigorously, has never been 

 protected in winter, and the ripe fruit holds on well. He thinks it a 

 cross between the native and Catawba, as these two grew near and 

 intermingled their branches near where the new seedling came up. Mr. 

 Clark adds, in a note, — "I claim nothing for it, except that it is a 

 superior native, and, in a fine location, it will ripen before the autumn 

 fruits." He is right. It is certainly a very superior grape. — New 

 England Farmer. 



Toads feed on all kinds of worms, and should never be killed in 

 gardens. The canker-worm is a favorite food with them ; they are 

 useful in destroying all kinds of garden grubs. 



