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into a circle of human love and care, making a part of a woman's home, 

 and thought of and admired whenever she comes out from her cottage, 

 with a blessing on the perfume and verdure? Is it the same bird wasting 

 his song in the thicket, or singing to me, with my whole mind afloat on his 

 music, and my eyes fastened to his glittering breast? So it is the same 

 block of marble, unmoved in the caves of Peutelicus, or brought forth and 

 wrought under the sculptor's chisel, yet the sculptor is allowed to create. 

 Sing on my bright Oriole ! Spread to the breeze your desiring finger, my 

 flowering tree ! Like the player upon the organ, I take your glory to my- 

 self; though, like the hallelujah that burns under his fingers, your beauty 

 and music worship God. — South- Agriculturist. 



A LIQUID FERTILIZER FOR CHOICE PLANTS. 



BY AN AMATEUR. 



Dear Sir — I am confident that there are many of your lady readers, 

 and perhaps many of the other sex, who are puzzled among the many new 

 manures, and having failed with some, and injured their plants with others, 

 they end by raising only sickly and meagre plants, when they might have 

 them presenting a luxuriant and satisfactory appearance — with leaves of 

 the darkest green and flowers or fruit of double the usual size. 



Having made a trial for three years past, with a perfectly safe and sa- 

 tisfactory liquid fertilizer, which appears to suit all kinds of vegetation, 

 which is clean and easily applied, and procured without difficulty, in any 

 town, I confidently recommend it to your readers, especially those who 

 wish to give especial pains to, and get uncommon results from, certain fa- 

 vorite plants — either in pots or in the open garden — plants, whose roots are 

 within such a moderate compass, that they can be reached two or three 

 times a week, if not oftener, by the watering pot. 



This liquid fertilizer is made by disolving half an ounce of sulphate of 

 ammonia in a gallon of water. 



Nothing so good can be cheaper, and the substance may be obtained at al- 

 most any apothecary's. 



Now for the mode of using it. I may say, at the outset, that weak as 

 the solution appears to be, and is, if plants are watered with it daily, they 

 will die — just as certainly as a man will who drinks nothing but pure brandy. 



The right way to apply it is, to water the plant with this solution every 

 sixth time, the other five times with plain water. 



