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planting them in quantity away from their naturalized 
or native soil, where they have set up for themselves 
an individuality of their own, and in accordance with 
the requirements of the various regions in which they 
have become settlers? Despite this inference on 
the contrary side, some of such varieties have survived 
their transportation well enough to justify extended 
attempts, and our repeating of invitations to ‘‘ At 
Homes ”’ here. 
P. Laricio, THE Corsican PINE.— 
I wandered lonely where the Pine Trees made 
Against the bitter East their barricade. 
WHITTIER. 
It is now some seventy years since our ancestors 
planted Corsican Pines, and euphemistically wrote 
of them as the Altissima Pines from Corsica. Though 
not approaching in grandeur of size this tree in its 
native land, the trees here have attained a greater 
height than any other Pines, including the Scots Pine, 
planted in those days. To give our own opinion upon 
the tree, we should sum up the situation abruptly 
with the remark that while we all like them intensely, 
the rabbits with an equal intensity dislike them. 
We should like—by way of an obiter dictum— 
to recount a little homely experience on this alleged 
distaste of the Corsican Pine on the part of the rabbit. 
Some time since, from where I write, when rabbits 
were thick upon the ground, as thick as Milton’s 
“autumnal leaves that strewed the brooks in Val- 
lombrosa,” a young Corsican was planted for the sole 
purpose of offering temptation at a spot where there 
passed and repassed, in numbers considerable, a host 
of hungry rodent rabbits, in quest of evening meal 
and evening drink. 
Rabbits, it was generally supposed, like many 
another frail specimen of the animal kingdom, were 
