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arboriculturist, independently of the beauty of its 

 foliage. But a tree, which, from this latter property, 

 has long been a favorite with us, and which, though 

 it is common in Europe, we regret to say, is yet but 

 half so well known as it should be, is the Silver- 

 leaved Abelo, {Populus Alba.) Its growth is very rap- 

 id, and it is, therefore, well adapted for planting where 

 time is an object of consideration. The llowers are 

 insignificant, but its leaves are highly interesting. 

 The under side of each of these is rendered perfectly 

 white by a dense cottonj' pubescence, and in a gentle 

 breeze, from their being supported on slender petioles, 

 they are in constant motion. At a moderate distance, 

 to a spectator standing on the windward side, they 

 give it frequently the appearance of being covered 

 with a profusion of white flowers. It has a beautiful 

 effect from the house when seen at some distance in 

 the foreground of a handsome, group of trees of a 

 darker green. Added to this, it holds its foliage un- 

 scathed by the frost, until the very latest period in 

 autumn. — . Prairie Far/mr. 



METHOD. 



A man has twenty or thirty letters and packets to 

 carry to their several destinations ; but instead of ar- 

 ranging them beforehand, and putting all addressed to 

 the same neighborhood in a parcel, he crams the whole 

 into a promiscuous bag. He delivers one letter in one 

 place, proceeds to a remote point with a second, re- 

 traces his stops before he can deliver a third, returns 

 to repair an omission, and then performs a transit that 

 might have been saved altogether by a little forecast. 

 Thus it requires two days to perform the business of 

 one. The man who has thoroughly mastered the 

 lesson, " A place for every thing, and every thing 

 in its place," will save a world of time. He loses no 

 leisure seeking for the unanswered letter or the lost 

 receipt ; he does not need to travel the same road 

 twice, and hence it is that some of the busiest men 

 have the least of a busy look. Instead of slamming 

 doors, and knocking over children in their head- 

 long hurry, they move about deliberately and care- 

 fully, ■without any expression of haste, anxiety, and 

 tumult ; for they have made their calculations, and 

 know that they have ample time to fulfil every duty 

 and every engagement. Those who live without a 

 plan, never have anj' leisure ; for their work is never 

 done — never can be done properly, because the end 

 and the right way to it have not been discerned and 

 pursued without deviations from the beginning. 



PATENT OFFICE. 



Tlie Patent Office was organized in 1790, and from 

 that time up to the commencement of the present 

 year, 1849, the number of patents issued was about 

 sixteen thousand two hundred. It is an interesting 

 moral deduction, to be able to draw from this state- 

 ment the fact, that useful invention has kept pace 

 with physical want. Thus the largest class of in- 

 ventions have been for agricultural improvement ; 

 the second, for articles of clothing, or the textile 

 fabrics, and the economies and comforts of impart- 

 ing warmth to the body. 



Destructive inventions have come few and far 

 between, and the whole number has not exceeded 

 two hundred and fifty of the sixteen thousand and 

 upwards which have been granted by the Patent 

 Office. A fact like this speaks well for the triumphs 

 of peace, an I of the moral turn given to the inven- 

 tive genius of the country. Indeed, there is no 

 department of tlio public service more suggestive of 

 interesting fact than that of the Patent Office. 



New York has the honor of receiving almost one 



third of all the patents granted, and New York city 

 almost as many lis the entire slave states. The 

 great bulk of the whole come from the free states — a 

 fact which will suggest others of interest without the 

 necessity of comment. — Neio York Express. 



BEAUTIES OF TREES. 



AMiat can be more beautiful than the trees ? — their 

 lofty trunks, august in their simplicity, asserting, 

 to the most inexperienced eye, their infinite supe- 

 riority over the imitative pillars of man's pride 

 — their graceful play of wido-si3reading branches, 

 and all the delicate and glorious machinery of buds, 

 leaves, flowers, and fruit, that, with more than magi- 

 cal effort, burst from the naked and rigid twigs, with 

 all the rich, and heaven-breathing, delectable odors, 

 pure and animating essences, pouring out spices and 

 medicinals, under brilliant and unimaginably varied 

 colors, and making music, from the softest and most 

 melancholy undertones to the full organ peal of the 

 tempest ! We wonder not that trees have been the 

 admiration of men in all periods and nations of the 

 world. What is the richest country without trees ? 

 What barren and monotonous spot can they not con- 

 vert into paradise ? Xerxes, in the midst of his most 

 ambitious enterprise, stopped his vast army to con- 

 template the beauty of a tree. Cicero, from the 

 throng, and exertion, and anxiety of the forum, was 

 accustomed, Pliny tells us, to steal forth to a grove 

 of plane-trees to refresh and invigorate his spirits. 

 In the Scaptan grove, the same author adds, Thu- 

 cydides was supposed to have comj^osed his noble 

 histories. The Greek and Roman classics, indeed, 

 abound with expressions of admiration ; but above 

 all, as the Bible surpasses, in the splendor and ma- 

 jesty of its poetry, all books in the world, so is its 

 sylvan aborcscent imagery the most bold and beauti- 

 ful. Beneath some spreading tree is the ancient 

 patriarch revealed to us, sitting in contemplation, or 

 receiving the visit of angels ; and what a calm and 

 dignified picture of primeval life is presented to our 

 imagination at the mention of Deborah, the wife of 

 Lapidoth, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, be- 

 tween Ramah and Bethel, in Mount Ephraim, beneath 

 the palm-tree of Deborah ! The oak of Bashan and 

 the cedar of Lebanon are but other and better names 

 for glory and power. The vine, the olive, and the 

 fig-tree are imperishable emblems of peace, plenty, 

 and festivity. David in his psalms, Solomon in his 

 songs and proverbs, the prophets in the sublime out- 

 pourings of their awful inspiration, and Christ in his 

 parables, — those most beautiful and perfect of all 

 allegories, — luxuriate in signs and similes drawn 

 from the fair- trees of the East. 



SULPHUR AND CHARCOAL FOR SWINE. 



Let your hogs, at this season, have a plentiful 

 supply of these articles. The former may be admin- 

 istered to them, at proper intervals, in their food ; 

 the latter, for convenience sake, may be deposited 

 weekly in their sties. Boxes of the proper size, 

 Ijermanently secured, should be provided for its re- 

 ception, and kept well replenished with the article, 

 at all "times. Salt, also, should be kept by them, or 

 it may be administered as a seasoning to their food. 

 The withholding of this article is, in many cases, 

 attended with fatal results, especially when the ani- 

 mals are kept principally on green and fermentable 

 food. Turn a half pint of salt into a hog's trough, 

 and if his diet has been fresh and unseasoned for 

 some time previous, he Mill devour it ravenously, 

 and at once. — Maine Culiivaior. . , ;■" 



