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their chestnuts and beans, the sole food of thoiisands of families. 

 Those who can afford potenia, a sort of pudding made of Indian 

 meal, fare sumptuously. The almond tasted kernels in the cones 

 of the pine tree, are also reckoned a great luxury in the moun- 

 tains." 



A correspondent of tlic Cambridge Chronicle, says, " We have 

 in our garden a small nursery of plum trees, which have been 

 nearly destroyed by the canker-worm. Last season we com- 

 menced shaking them off. One day we observed many toads 

 about these trees, that on our approach became frightened, and 

 retreated in great haste to their retreats in the neighboring bush- 

 es. Soon finding that they were not pursued, they commenced 

 hopping back, and eagerly caught with avidity each canker-worm 

 as it descended on its tiny thread. We counted, at one time, 

 thirty immediately around our feet. Day after day, we fed them 

 with their favorite food, and they became so tame as to follow us, 

 watch our hands, and take worms from our fingers.'" 



The Language of Mothek Earth. — Plants are, as it were, the 

 most direct language of the earth. Every new leaf, every strange 

 flower, is some secret that is pi'essing forth, and which, because 

 it cannot move or speak for joy and love, becomes a mute, quiet 

 plant. When we find such a flower in a solitary place, does it not 

 seem as if every thing around were transfigured, and as if the 

 little feathered ones loved best to dwell in its vicinity ? Over the 

 whole dry world is flung this green, mysterious carpet of love. 

 With every spring it is made new, and its strange writing is only 

 known to be beloved, like the posies of the Orient. Forever will 

 he read, and never read his fill ; and daily becomes aware of new 

 revelations of living nature. 



Cranberries on High Land. — Mr. Xeedham, of Locustdale, 

 West Danvers, has sent us a box of cranberries grown upon high 

 land,which are of good size and shape, and well ripened. lie has 

 about one hundred rods under culture — has gathered thirty six 

 bushels, which he has sold at $4 00 per bushel. But for "the 

 drought of last summer, he confidently expected to get a bu shel 

 from each square rod. Few men among us have devoted so much 

 attention to the growing of the cranberry as the Messrs. Need- 

 ham, or succeeded so well. Others have reclaimed meadows, and 

 cultivated the berry successfully there, but very few have at- 

 tempted it on dry land. — JVeio England Fanner. 



At a recent meeting of the New York Horticultural Society, the 



