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its batiks, closed right and left by bigh walls. Here Is my bird place — 

 two porticos and double colonnade, closed by hemp twines, side and top. 

 At each end close pavilions for shelter, when they want it." The camel 

 ■was in Erance in the Merovingian period, and the cloth camlet then made 

 from its hair — about 1,400 years ago. 



The learned minister, De L'Huys, has availed himself of the million 

 volumes of Paris, and with a zeal worthy of praise. History is the best 

 teacher. Facts, and not theories, must and will govern man while he works 

 on this globe! Whatever wild " isms " whirl his brain periodically, he 

 must return to solid truth. 



But we have sown the good seed of progress, which the good seed of the 

 Gospel grows, and the tree has taken root. It was necessary for us no 

 longer to be exclusively French, but to be cosmopolitan, to form one of the 

 great world we inhabit for our own benefit and for universal good. Our 

 work at first occupied a modest saloon ; but we spread. Twenty-one sove- 

 reigns belong to our Society. We were only born yesterday, and now we 

 are everywhere. Utility and pleasure go hand in hand from generation to 



generation. 



"Jeunes de gloire et dHmmortalile." 

 [ForeTer young in glory and in immortality.] 



Schiller said, " Woman knows how to add charm to utility ; the utile 

 dulci — useful and sweet. We will add to our animal races the antelope, 

 gazelle, alpaca, half she ass, stag, hemione, and the yak — that ox with the 

 tail of the horse — the tapir, the kangaroo, and the birds and the fishes, and 

 the art of dressing nature. 



The place where a great variety of things — vegetable and animal — that 

 have been established in the garden of plant, Paris, come from, was also 

 mentioned, among other things, that the common alder came from Persia j 

 the olive, from Greece ; the laurel, from the mountains of Asia ; the dahlia, 

 from Mexico ; the white cabbage, from north of Europe, and the red and 

 green cabbage from Egypt ; melons from the the East ; peaches from Per- 

 sia ; potatoes and tobacco from South America ; prunes from Syria ; while 

 Asia was given as the native country of the grape. 



Andrew S. Fuller objected to this part of the statement. He said the 

 grape may be a native of Asia, but America had more native grapes than 

 are known In any other country. The Laurus nobilis is the one that should 

 have been specified as the particular one of the family alluded to in that 

 paper, as we certainly have several native laurels in this country. It'is 

 very true that there are no plants of a high order. Indigenous to Europe 

 and America. 



BLACKBERRY SEED. 



Some one wrote to the Club for Lawton blackberry seed, Mr. Lawton 

 gaid that the uncertainty of getting the product exactly like the original 

 deterred him from sending out any seed. But the seed of the genuine ber- 

 ries can be procured of seedsmen. Great efforts have been made to get 

 improved berries from the woods, by marking the vines in the field that 



