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Ce que votre terrain adopte avec plaisir, 

 Sachez le reconnoitre, osez-vous en saisir. 



I have been enjoying De"lille in the old edition 

 of eighteen volumes, copiously illustrated with 

 quaint woodcuts. I found it in an old book- 

 stall, and obtained it for a song. No wonder 

 the late A. J. Downing was so fond of " Les 

 Jardins," a French Georgic with nineteenth-cent- 

 ury improvements ! Sir Theodore Martin ought 

 to do with this and " The Man of the Fields " 

 what he has done with Horace and Heine ; they 

 are books that every gardener and lover of nature 

 should be able to enjoy. 



So many desirable forms of Narcissi may be 

 had so cheaply, that almost any one can afford 

 to grow some of the capricious varieties as bien- 

 nials. With proper selection and intelligent cul- 

 tivation, we may have in the daffodil a treasure- 

 house of beauty, and . with this flower alone 

 render any garden a field of the cloth of gold. 



