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«j We saw a large plant of the Maclura once against a wall, and formed ^A 

 o a very different opinion of it to what we now entertain. There it was W 

 a foreigner, a nursling, and commanded respect — an inhabitant of the A 

 great receptacle which the garden of Ke'w forms for the natives of all 

 countries and climes. The Paper Mulberry, too, was there, (perhaps 

 the multicaiilis so well known to speculators) as a beautiful and showy 

 arborescent shrub, with its multiplicity of forms in foliage, it being a 

 common practice to puzzle the greenhorn by challenging him to find 

 two leaves identical in their lobes. We had there also the Forsythia 

 viridissima planted against a wall exposed to the south, and it aston- 

 ished us one morning with its fine yellow bloom and naked branches, 

 beino; alone, almost without a Chinaman or a label to tell its name. 

 Fortune was but one mile distant, so that its identity as one of his pro- 

 teges was soon discovered. 



We had also as an acclimated inhabitant, Weigelia rosea, Crypto- 

 meriaJaponica, Acacia Julibrissin, Eucalyptus pulverulentus perfoli- 

 atus, and many other New Holland plants, Ericas from the south of Eu- 

 rope, and Rhododendrons and Azaleas from the Himalaya, and Nepal 

 plants without number, and North American grapes, and Ampelop- 

 sis hederacea, and other species; and Phytolacca flfdecandria, or poke 

 weed ; these all flourished there, or, as they term it, were acclimated. 

 How far their idea of acclimatisation goes we cannot say ; we do not 

 believe they were acclimated. In fact, we do not much believe in ac- 

 climating plants at all ; but we shall give more facts next month, and 

 allow our readers to judge for themselves. 



NATURAL SCIENCE. 



" The man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before," 

 &.c. — Cobbet. 



A?rifllltU]Y, The science by which we are supported — the science 

 that teaches man how to use the gifts of God — which affords nutri- 

 ment and aliment to all created beings, without the aid of which we 

 should be no betier than the Nomadic hordes of South America or Af- 

 rica. The farmer is rather low in spirits, although his carefully stored 

 potatoes realise $1 and $1.25 per bushel, and other provisions in pro- 

 portion; beef $12 per cwt., vegetables as parsnips, carrots, &c, almost 

 any price. The housekeeper, ignorant or unmindful of natural con- 

 sequences, exclaims against the farmer or dealer, and he wonders at 

 the want of sympathy displayed towards him — his operations are back- 

 ward, he is humed with work to be done ; he hates to come to mar- 

 ket, yet money must be had. His soil, if clayey, is not yet in perfect 

 working order ; his potatoes, if early planted, likely to rot, if not al- 

 C ready rotting; his small seeds not yet vegetating on the 6th of May, c 

 {•> and his family not diminishing in number ; but the cheerful mind does'-* 3 



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