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THE ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN. 
But who, in truth, may guess or tell 
"What thoughts those liny bosoms swell? 
Oh ! I could sit beside the brink 
Of that bright lake, and soothly think 
Of Him who made the mountain high, 
Yet bends on earth a watchful eye; 
"Who bade the flower of peerless white 
Uplift her petals" to the light, 
That stand like burnish' d pillars round 
To guard from harm her fairy ground, 
AVhere summer creatures love to dwell, 
And sip from out the brimming well;* 
The well, though full and brimming ever, 
Yet leaping o'er its margin — never. 
Fair flower! thou art not made in vain! 
Nor j'et to grace that watery plain ; 
Nor yet, that living things may dwell 
Within thy bounds, beside thy well. 
But aye, that erring man may look 
And read, as from an open book, 
Of Him who, when on earth he trod, 
Drew oft from flowery brake, or sod, 
Or warbling bird, in glade or glen, 
Lessons of truth for anxious men." — Pp. 152-154. 
There is throughout the book a train 
of serious thought and holy purpose, highly 
creditable to the authoress; and having given 
fair specimens of the style, she requires no 
further recommendation. We may, perhaps, 
hint that the volume would be a pretty pre- 
sent to the younger branches of a family. 
SALPIXANTHA COCCINEA. 
(Hooker.) 
THE SCARLET TRUMPET-FLOWER. 
In Salpixantha we have a handsome stove 
shrub; and being considered by Sir W. Hooker 
as forming a genus distinct from any hitherto 
described, some knowledge of its character 
may be interesting to our readers 
* " Nectary, or honey cup, in which many flowers 
secrete a sweet juice." 
It is described as a low branching shrub, 
glabrous or smooth in every part ; the leaves 
are ovate, dark green at top, paler beneath, 
slightly waved on the margin ; opposite, that 
is, attached to opposite sides of the stem, with 
which they are connected by short foot-stalks: 
the flowers are produced in a loose, gracefully 
disposed spike, which is either from the axils 
of the leaves, when it is produced singly, or 
from the termination of the shoots, in which 
latter case it is usually accompanied by two 
smaller spikes, one on each side : the flowers 
are arranged on this spike decussately oppo- 
site, that is, in pairs from opposite sides of the 
stem, alternately at right angles, forming four 
rows of flowers. Individually they are tube- 
shaped, scarlet crimson, with an expanding 
margin or limb, as it is termed ; the interior 
is white; they have a good deal the appearance 
of the blooms of Russellia juncea, both as to 
size and shape. 
It inhabits the island of Jamaica, from 
whence it was sent by Mr. Purdie to the Royal 
Garden of Kew. In that establishment it is 
found to bloom in the autumn and early part 
of the winter, and has a very handsome ap- 
pearance when in bloom. It requires the 
assistance of a stove or hot-house. Sir W. 
Hooker observes that it " has at first sight 
little apparent affinity with the Acanthaceae," 
in which natural order it is stationed. 
THE ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN.* 
Few people have read more and practised 
more than the author of this volume, which, 
by way of introduction, we will observe, is 
very beautifully got up, with gilt-edged leaves 
and coloured plates; which said plates are said 
to be portraits of the particular fruits described, 
and of the blossoms of their peculiar trees. 
The plan of the work is to give brief histories 
of all the fruits, and descriptive lists of sorts 
most recommended. To this is added a very 
good practical lesson on the management of 
each, and in this the author shines. Very few 
men can come up to him, and none pass him, 
in the practical part of a gardener's business. 
It is only when he trusts to others that he 
errs ; and this is the case occasionally with 
the lists of fruit, which he rather boasts of in 
the commencement of the work, where he 
says — 
" The principal feature of the work, there- 
fore, is the Select Lists of the various kinds of 
fruit, with the copious synonymes attached 
thereunto. The author believes that they con- 
* The Orchard, &c, by Charles M'Intosh, Head 
Gardener to the Duke of Buccleuch. London : Win. 
S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 
