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and ai-e succeeded by shoi-t flat legumes, containing frsvo or three seeds, flat, round, and sliglitly 
cuiTed in the middle, -wliiclL ripen about July. In England it is little cultiTated, except as food for 
cattle. 
According to Dr. Playfair, the Lentil contains more nitrogenous matter tban any other of the 
leguminous plants, and is, consequently, more nutiitious. A cui'ious proof of its nutritious properties 
is said to exist in the use made of it by the Hindoos, Tvho add Lentils to their rice diet, -when engaged 
in laborious work. Einhoff obtained, fi'om 3,840 parts of Lentils, 1,260 pai'ts of starch and 1,433 of 
matter analagous to animal matter. 
The Lentil is abundantly used in Roman Catholic counti-ies dm-ing Lent and other fasts, both in 
soups and di'cssed as haricots. The pulse is imported into England in limited quantities, chiefly for 
the same object. The Lentil also forms the base of a kind of flour or meal called Eevalenta, which has 
been much extolled for its nutritious properties, and its fitness for invalids. 
The Lentil is, however, held to be difficult of digestion ; and, when taken in quantities, or without a 
due proportion of other food, is fomid to be sub-nai'cotic. lu connection with tliis subject, it is worthy 
of mention, that the seeds of many leguminous plants ai-e poisonous, and productive of serious con- 
sequences when used as food. This quality pointedly attaches to those of another species of Emun — 
E. Ervilia, which are sometimes used. — M. 
PROFESSIO^^AL AjS^D MORAL TRAINING. 
HINTS ADDKESSED TO YOUNG GARDENEKS. 
By Mr, V, P. KEAXE, Author op " The Eeavties of Surrey," &c. 
l^HE desii-e to see you rise to some distinction in the gardening world, prompts me to advise you 
H how to proceed for the attainment of that object. To improve in the knowledge of any useful 
science, it is necessary to have a desire for that particular' subject. The desii'C for gardening, I know 
you have ; no study is more pleasing or insti'uctive. God has implanted in the breasts of all mankind 
a natm'al desii'e for the cultivation and admiration of tlie fi'uits of the garden ; witness the child pleased 
with culling bright flowers, or in using its tiny hands in feeble eftbrts to cultivate them. Even when 
the love of riches and of power confines men to cities, their natui-al desires are still strong for the enjoy- 
ments of rui-al life ; and in the decline of life, when the different passions by which they have been 
actuated are subsiding, they retire to the qmet and healthful enjoyments to be found in the contem- 
plation of the works of natm-e, displayed in the various flowers, fi-uits, and the manifold beauties of 
garden scenery. It is a pleasing and instructive study to trace the works of natm-e up to natm-e s 
God. There is a gi-eat variety of objects, each produced for some useful pm-pose, and each forming a 
link ser^dng to connect the whole of the works of natm-e into one perfect chain. 
Even the coloui-s diffused over the whole face of natm-e are subjects worthy of yom- attention. 
Green is the colour of all others most pleasing and agreeable to the sight ; it is on that aecoimt that 
the Almighty CVcator of aU has clothed the hUls and plains with a soft and smiling verdm-e ; and to 
obviate a sameness in the whole, which would make it difficult to distinguish objects, the verdm-e of 
the pastui-e differs from that of cultivated land, and every tree or plant has a shade or tinge peculiar to 
itself; thus, the many varieties of the same colour, all tend to diversify and beautify the scene. If 
white or red coloui-s were spread as generally as green, on the sm-face of the earth, their dazzling 
or glaring appearance would be most fatiguing and disagreeable to the sight ; and, if black or brown 
were the predominant colours in natm-e, all things would appear melancholy, or attired in mom-ning. 
Pray, let it be yom- study, at evei-y opportunity, to notice the appearances that natm-e displays with 
each succeeding week. As the present season (winter) is that in which vegetation is compai-atively at 
rest, notes can be taken of the Evergreens, now the ornaments of the pleasm-e-ground. You may t hin k 
such attention is unnecessary, and that you can always recollect what trees, shrubs, and plants are 
Evergreens, and what are deciduous ; but, to put your recollection and knowledge to the test, I beg 
you -vviU make the ti-ial, by -^viiting a Ust of the names over-night, and then, on going abroad in the 
morning, you -wiU see many that you had forgotten ; and, not improbably, many of which you were 
uncertain whether they were Evergreens or not, imtil yom- attention was so particulai-ly directed to the 
subject. jSIark the varieties of the shades of green, light, dark, glaucous, &c. — all to be registered for 
the usefid object, wliich you -will better understand at some futm-e day, of blending the various hues so 
as to form a pleasing landscape on the whole. 
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