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spurs, asters, &c. The cool temperature of the past sum- 

 mer, with recent rains, was favorable to a late development 

 of such pretty annuals, and though only occasionally seen, 

 gave promise of future success when such pursuits were 

 better known and more estimated. 



In a neat garden, tended with assiduous care in the few 

 leisure hours of a very industrious merchant of Lubec, I 

 observed most excellent cauliflowers, growing without any 

 extraordinary care or culture. Many pretty annuals and 

 plants were here attended to, and a showy garden made 

 quite attractive the premises of his house. The strawberry 

 and red currant were also raised, but the same insect which 

 strips the latter of its foliage and produces a premature 

 coloring of the fruit with us, nearly discourages every trial 

 to its successful cultivation. The larger kinds of goose- 

 berry thrive well, however, and are free from mildew or 

 blight on the berry ; a circumstance of importance, in 

 growing that sort of fruit. I noticed none of the larger 

 varieties of foreign raspberries, the abundant crops of the 

 native raspberry, {Rubus strigosits,) satisfying every want, 

 in the absence of so much more superior sorts. Every 

 grain field is bordered with wild raspberry bushes, and 

 large tracts of burnt land covered with this growth. 

 These, with some species of blue berry, with a small black 

 berry, {Riibus trividlis ?) with the cranberry, {Oxycoccus 

 macrocdrpus,) the cowberry, {Yacciniiim Yitls IdcB^a,) con- 

 stitute the principal fruits. Other kinds, the steamboats 

 direct from Boston furnish; amply supplying every de- 

 ficiency produced by whatever causes deter their cultiva- 

 tion. 



A section of country thus humid and cool might be ex- 

 pected to furnish to the botanist many interesting crypto- 

 gamic plants. On the denuded and barren hills may be 

 seen, in the greatest abundance, the Chenille lichen, {Ste- 

 reocaulo?i paschdle ;) while the reindeer lichen, {Cladd?iia 

 vangiferina,) is comparatively scarce. That beautiful va- 

 riety, forming a dense thrysiform spike, (C. galpesfris.) 

 may be seen occasionally on the more shady hill sides — 

 while Evernia vulpina, in close proximity with an Us7iea, 

 occupies the ground, and even grows among the loose 

 stones. Bseomyces roseus, and many interesting species of 

 Lecidea, are abundant; while almost every twig of spruce 

 and fir is covered with Parmelia enterom6rpha(]) or an 



