deserters who have followed the fortunes of the emigrant, reminding 
him, if he has eyes to see, of the home he has left. Wliy then is 
the Western World so hospitable, and the Eastern so inhospitable 
to strangers ? so that with us they come so stmnge as not 
to claim naturalization, and so readily fall away during the first 
winter, or the first train of adverse circumstances. Why or wherefore 
1 cannot tell ; but this much is certain, that whilst European soil 
hardly sufiers an immigrant to obtain a foothold, on the Western 
side all new-comers obtain a welcome, and are readily installed in a 
new and permanent rest. 
^V^o are told that in America the careful observer will notice 
plants in all stages of natumlization : some only in cultivated fields 
and gardens j others, which are of a more roving nature, have got 
beyond the spade and the plough, maintaining a precarious existence, 
which may be brought to a close by an unfavourable season or any 
other adverse circumstance. Others have a stronger hold, and occupy 
the wayside or the hedgerow ; others, still hardier, have opened 
out on their own account a lino of life, and, as it were, have com- 
bated the aboriginal inhabitants ; and, not only have they done this, 
but have proved victorious in the struggle. Ey crowding upon them, 
by stifling them, by appropriating their nourishment, they have in 
many cases succeeded in dispossessing their arrtagonists, the rightful 
heirs ; as by similar practices the white man has pushed out the red 
man from his land; netting his fish, destroying and driving b.nck his 
game, building towns orr his prairies, and running a railroad tlrrough 
his huntirrg-grounds, so that he, too, like the vegetation, has been 
ousted in the antagonism of existence ; and, in both cases, only 
portions of the hardier tribes have been able to withstand the fierce- 
ness of the attack. 
I noticed in a magazine a few days ago (I believe the ‘ Gardener’s 
(chronicle’), that last year considerirble alterations were made in 
^Manhattan Park, ETew York. These grounds are about sixteen 
acres in extent ; and after filling an old pond and generally levelling 
the siu’face, it was noticed, after a short time, that the ground was 
covered with one hundred and forty varieties of wild plants, the 
greater portion of which were of European origin. All this to me 
