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degrees to endure this Climate. At the end of the upper Walk 
there’s an Aviary: at the further end of the Orchard, I have my 
Bees, which is a sient: worth your ae he Of the woods and 
forests our author t length and is evidently 
impressed with the fact that the country is eavered with so much 
wood, “and in our manner of speaking, ae is all too much of 
it, and in our way. Still it comes to hand to build vessels and 
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are all noted and a vivid description is given of the manner of 
burning the woods as it was periodically done by the native 
“(Wilden, for so we name those who are not born of Christian 
parents).” 
He also at that early day, in speaking of the wood-burning 
Aan that there oo is such an abundance of wood in the 
in a very few years the Public Parks of New York City will be 
the sole remnants of that sylvan Eldorado so marvelled at by 
the first settlers of Manhattan. 
A. M. Var. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
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Canada, ee by Henry Holt & Co., was issued in October. 
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references, and most a the synonymy of the latter work being 
mitted. The manual includes also descriptions of species that 
have become known since the publication of the Illustrated Flora, 
