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yellow-flower tassels. You may note, too, the broad 

 green leaf of the Nicotian "weed," or the bursting pod 

 of the snow-white cotton. In the garden you will observe 

 the sweet potato (convolvulus batatas,} the common one 

 (solanum tuberosum,) the refreshing tomato, the huge 

 water-melon, cantelopes, and musk-melons, with many 

 others of the cucurbitaceae. You will see pods of the red 

 and green pepper (capsicum) growing upon trailing plants 

 like convolvuli or vines; and beside them species of 

 leguminosde all valuable for the colonel's cuisine. There 

 is an orchard, too ; it is several acres in extent. It is 

 filled with fruit trees ; you behold the finest peaches in 

 the world the finest apples the Newton pippins. Be- 

 sides, there are luscious pears and plums, and upon the 

 espaliers are vines bearing bushels of sweet grapes. If 



Colonel P lives in the woods, it cannot be said that 



he is surrounded by a desert. 



There are several substantial log-houses near the main 

 building or mansion. They are, the stable and good 

 horses there are in that stable the cow-house, for milk 

 cattle ; the barn, to hold the wheat and maize-corn ; the 

 smoke-house, for curing bacon ; a large building for the 

 dry tobacco ; a cotton-gin, with its shed of clap-boards ; 

 bins for the husk fodder, and several smaller structures. 

 In one corner you see a low-walled erection that reminds 

 you of a kennel, and the rich music that from time to 



