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heir mechanical actions in a live state; Se ree ee ene sin re 
essential to notice in the —_— obtained gee can | formed his ostensible le occupation n till i rar the pro- | both savour y f the f 
enlighten or enlarge the ideas which science had already fession of a player; that Lemons which his early bio- The busin : wful, or how 
acquired. M. Boucherie’s experiments have already fur- graphers supposed to be woolcombing, an 2 remote i i f. 
imagined to be writing for an attorney, but which I con- | ficient to shut ont this class . facts from Shakspeare’s 
= _— hardness, and rigidity of the woody system. | tend-must have been closely allied to gardening or forest- | mind.- In that most thrilling interview sag Fe Hamlet 
enlighten vegetable physiology on the constitu- | ing, or both. Nature never chose the desk or the work- and his mother, he A his uncle to a ‘* mildew'd ear 
* i pe" on the situation of the reservoirs, where are | shop as the scene ofa s education. soo saeeg : “not 
elaborated the iar secretions called the ‘‘ proper | like Burns, must have dts wo h ker.”” 
juices” of each individual. For according d oe however, ie no to prom gral I must 
injected by filtration or aspiration can or cannot dissolve | that took him ur friend P. P. says that Shak- | 2Ow leave the rere a to the further investigation of the 
them in its longitudinal Passage, we shall know with cer- speare’s know tedee is Sate shown in ‘‘all the walks of | Curious; merely remarking, that whenever Shakspeare 
tainty whether —— ith the chan- | art,’’ a position which I believe to be quite untenable, and | 4pplies an illustration whose source is not dictated by the 
nels in which the “pein flows, or whether they are com- I will select a. few instances to show that the p ae subject, and whose nature, therefon te, is quite immaterial, 
isolated, and rat tone of his thoughts was that of a horticulturist, in the . fi 
ext li tation o oft the solvent power | widest sense of the word. rt y 
a deen sags mi ’ pe pesto 2st : 7 rea hes | but where creation is open to hin by he resorts — to ‘ 
eg or less via and general to minute and technical familiarity. Witness this extra- the garden or the woods. : 
dispersion of the artificial properties which may thus be y passage in the Winter's Tale, “gongs ae fur- | Juliet’s familiar speech respecting Romeo’s name— 
given to wood. nish the very best cage in the world f atise on |. lik a a, ori Pao smell as sweet, 
_ Pawlownia | Imperialis. —M. Neumann, director of the | horticulture. Perdita has been ing nadir ae art of | ' “ke that where ry the Fifth in disguise, speaking of 
varieties in flowers; an art which shares, she the king as sharing our common humanity, says 
Po the manner in which ie obtained the plant Pode is says, with great creating nature. On which Polixenes Sin- | So Dew Faba ia © eek deve about Nothing,” 
conceived to te ange aa In 1834 forms her that I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a piawr ities grace, 
rson to whom , ig test Nature is made better by no mean, ; and an infinite number besides. 
sent from Japan in little. Beer pots. Of these seeds Which yoo pram “esse gga Ihave not time to count them, but 
only one came up, but this was carefully attended t to. In That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we matry be aware that such figures as slips, scions, nit stocks, 
A gentler scion to the wildest stock, plantings pre pruning, flowering, cankers in the bud, &c. &c., 
inches, but the leaves dropped off. Being kept in a gree me teeheit cekioe ; = Ladgy ~ray homer to say pcg of roots and branches, are, to et Shak- 
ee where the heat was Brobably too great, it < forth Which does mend nature,—change it rather ; but “* plenty as blackberries;’’ while Pro- 
in winter two shoots, which were employed as cuttings, The art itself is nature. s final . 
and quickly took root. Ta the third year ae: parent Then make your gard il - You demy-puppets, that 
plant was removed into the open air, and in autumn . And do not ealltetn bastards By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, 
reached a height of three feet. When the autummal frosts | T hich Perdita replies, Isto make uidnight Mashicome 
set in; it still continued to gro’ w, but the leaves fell off, The ave in the earth to set one slip of them, proves his acquaintance with the’so-called fairy rings, 
without turning a the lite Fa ae Here’s flowers for you, and other agricultu: perstitio: 
rounded with ettaw, and the root covered. with Was Meda eat nee te wk Matjoram ; Had I foreseen that I should ever adopt the vocation 
The following s spring, after enduring a temperature 7 6, ‘Aust with beat chase eee = day bad TE etusld ‘inde ” 
weeping : these are flowers a critic, I wo; ave priefs in my notbron = 
it was as flourishing as in the _Precedi ing autumn. In Of middle summer.—Oh! Proserpina, many | similar Pvemrg which, if collected, would prove 
bea "it. grew with grout vigour, i prop: ly For the Sawant wow that, tienes, thow lete’t fall 8 rk for the Shai f 
: From Dis’s (wor rt kspeare Society, 
‘and put out two side branches. In winter inven Lyte ge na et sar ao ee a ae 
fi again covered up, and supported a temperature of Es ongho er nf gosto ghee wanda Te bag lll hat theirs Li 7 Cage , 
140 so well that the tops of the branches were not in the But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
This fact places th fi Or Cytherea’s breath ; pale ‘oses 
plete naturalisation beyond all doubt; and, indeed, in That die unmarried, ere they can behold Reviews. 
1839 it fi Moet inchdeat Semone, bald Ontigs aie Elements of Botany, Structural, Pare logic: 
In th 1839 The C Imperial ; Lilies of all kinds, tical and Medical; being a fourth Sation or "the 
because the noe nary of the season was not ere The ~de-luce ey to iaeek Outline of the First Saga of Rasim By Joan 
cold ; but in January, when the thermometer “on en Witness, the Duke of B Burgondy’s a ive tek ipton of ee tes y, P.L.D., FLR.S Taylor and 
23, 1840, it was a a splendid green, and nine fee high. bytes sated which Frans Shak. ad been reduced _ ii the war; | Tyose ae. are at all acquainted with elementary works 
M. Neumann cannot state std ac oo tren ‘whieh eee Te wo speare’s personal feelings as | on Botany must be aware that there existed a little book 
will one day besome an ornament to aw- | 7 Agriculturist have made him descend fot quite | called * Outlines of the First Principles of Botany,” in 
lownia imperialis, as he has not Lac seen wal a ieee which hws - - th the occasion, i : sane: of | which the groundwork of the science was concisely traced 
he believes to one panicled, of the colour of a . apoaker, Nesutipel an the sparse. © never by means of sh hs referring by numbers from 
purpurea. Siebold in his Flora aponia fase. L ) Unpruned dies ; he Wedces even pleach’d, one to the other. It was not a book shaded for amuse- 
that th in its nati ae a pes Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, ment, but a careful digest of the most essential facts of 
of 40 feet, and that bo is the Bignonia — of Put forth disorder’d twigs; her fallow leas, Botany, drawn up for - thie use of those who wished to 
Thunberg, which has since been placed new ‘odie Sok toot ee eis ere bcm oniga study it formally, and to aequire a correct knowledge of 
Fr nch Paper. ‘That should deracinate such savagery ; : the subject. It has now grown into an 8vo. of 292 pages, 
“Dried Flowere.—We some ‘time since (Pp. 103) men- The even mead that erst brought sweetly forth and the four little plates that it was illustrated by have 
. ape Beckles: Cousin, Burst; sik ethers anet multiplied into a large number of -cuts. 
Bateman, of Leachure rch Villa, near Derby ; since that Concuitie Bi iieccas  wnaaibching Genus The difficulties that students always fecl in applying 
time others have been put into our hands from Miss But hateful Docks, rough Thistles, Kecksies, Burs, themselves to such a subject as Botany consist principally 
Snow, of Exwall.. They are disposed in groups with con- Losing both beauty and utility.—Henry V., Act 5,Scene2. | in their doubts as to the points which it is most im- 
siderable taste, y produce a very agreeable effect. ee eee ae ee portant, for them to impress on the mind from among 
One of these groups, ee eh ore some Pe- y led to such allusions ; but in | the multitude that crow the pages of extended trea- 
largoniums, a little Moss, a pu P a Daisy, | the ‘lowing the lastrations ae party voluntary, The | tises. If Vegetable Anatomy Se 
some “rel Grass, and a wild Geranium, is pie Bishop of Ely, describing P. Fs that branch of Botany alone comprehending details enough 
larly pretty, and far more ornamental than the unskilful | 2nd wisdom, despite his bad associates, says aa to constitute a science of itself, and he is naturally em- 
mixture of yellow, and blue, and green, which is often Perper g simi cacerer penn aety barrassed by the difficulty of ascertai —— — a 
a . The of these Neighbour'd by a a ri | in it bear upon his ulterior stadite, and what 
little groups is for a lady’s idle And so the prince obscured his tial. Such a work cepieaiiy feteasiea 
Under the veil of wildness ; which, no doubt, to ve doubts of this kind, by separating ‘the facts 
Lea M. Neumann, director of cng pelnarsmay og ong hg nient, which bear directly upon the Cees questions in science, 
Fag rte in ae Gu Hai Was: facnished: the ‘i Henry V.. Act 1, Scene 1. mr rend refinements ope ase details, which to 
following remarkable case. A transverse cut genet | Again, : ous application. In thie manner the whole di 
a leaf of Theout Aer a As knots hy the confiix of meeting 650, of Voqsibie Rashes is brought wi shia: the Soompeaead 
into two pie. At the base of the cut cut portion of the a eetiy ozs a fo the cour of growth. ‘ out Fink 
; Blunt wedges rive hard knots the seeded pride Botany, and comprehends an explanation of the names 
That hath to this maturity blown up borne by the organs of plants, together with a 
Te teat: Ackles, seh op Bee be eee view of the recent theories and an ex- 
A a nursery « ine P 
To over-balk us all.—‘Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, position ee, 
sehr Spt se 2 2 y wht reared of plants. It thus embraces the principal facts on which 
ae knots. eacintt dees bales pg sharpness was | the theory of manures is founded. This par! a ae 
ar | Reet sneemiys ba saer erin we re chy a eee om eae or 
obs eas Ri Yinta OF née the , and referred to from e. 
——— jt rab nahi en Hing the we the “ tortive” course of the | small figures a nes of words. Take 
in. This expression  shakspeare’s s is as happy se oh ST 
as true as that of the statesman who illustrated the em-| 342. The petals og? ir folog the lve of ba 
ployment agents too clever for their work, by the use of | * gt Spare -_ sat 
a sharp knife to cut _ Py | Bake AE ak sy tine (he ‘petile eriee from. before the 
"As true as plantage to the moon, | sepals, such a circumstance is due to the abortion of one 
in allusion to the notion of the moon’s influence on on plant- ————=eo se petals which 
ing and epee aes Ir” eae wtetone ) oo 
dignation is repeatedly shown at the injury ; 
4 a3 ny their barks. 
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