SCENES IN AXD ABOUT JERUSALEM. 
©I)c Rcoicwcr. 
Gold-Foil,— Hammered from Popular Proverbs. By 
Timothy Titcomb, author of “ Letters to the Young.” 
[Iflmo.-pp, 858.] New York: Charles Scribner. 
Rochester -Steele, Avert & Co. 
Over the nom de plume of Timothy Titcomb, Dr. 
J. G. Holland, of the Springfield Republican, has 
heretofore attained high rank and usefulness in the 
field of Literature—especially in his able, instructive 
and popular “Letters to YouDg Men”—and “Gold- 
Foil” confirms his reputation as a writer of rare ability 
and originality of thought and expression. “ Gold- 
Foil” is a household book of the right stamp and 
tendency, and will continue to impart moral and im¬ 
pressive lessons long after the great mass of tempora- 
rily-popular works of the day shall be forgotten. Rich 
in entertainment and instruction, and exhibiting the 
best fruits of culture, observation and experience, it is 
in thought and finish a work of sterling merit—its 
earnest and genial style, sound philosophy and high 
moral tone appealing successfully to the head and heart 
of the appreciative and intelligent reader. This is 
strong language, we admit, but “Gold-Foil” is not a 
common book, and merits unusual commendation. It 
is issued in the best style of the enterprising publisher 
whose imprint it bears. 
— To sustain the opinion above expressed in regard 
“ Gold-Foil ” we append a few extracts from its pages, 
though it is difficult to segregate paragraphs from chap¬ 
ters and subjects which we should be glad to copy entire: 
Exordial Remarks. 
A few months ago, the pen that traces these 
lines commenced a series of letters to the young. 
The letters accumulated, and grew into a book; 
and this book, with honest aims and modest pre¬ 
tensions, has a place to-day in many thousand 
homes, while it has been read by hundreds of 
thousands of men and women in every part of the 
country. More and better than this, it has become 
an inspiring, moving and directing power in a 
great aggregate of young life. I say this with 
that kind of gladness and gratitude which admits 
of little pride. I say it because it has been said to 
me—revealed to me in letters brimming with 
thankfulness and overflowing with friendliness; 
expressed to me in silent pressures of the hand— 
pressures so full of meaning that I involuntarily 
looked at my palm to see if a jewel had not been 
left in it; uttered tome by eyes full of interest and 
pleasure; told to me in plain and homely words 
in the presence of tears that came unbidden, like 
so many angels sliding silently out of heaven, to 
vouch for their honesty. To say that all this 
makes me happy, would not be to say all that I 
feel. I account the honor of occupying a pure 
place in the popular heart—of being welcomed in 
God’s name into the affectionate confidence of 
those for whom life has high meanings and high 
issues—of being recognized as among the benefi¬ 
cent forces of society—the greatest honor to be 
worked for and won under the stars. So much 
for that which is past, and that which is. 
And now, I would have the old love renewed. 
I would come to the hearts to which the letters 
have given me access with another gift—with food 
for appetites quickened and natures craving fur¬ 
ther inspiration. I would bring new thoughts to 
be incorporated into individual and social life, 
which shall strengthen their vital processes, and 
add to their growth. I would continue and perpet¬ 
uate the communion of my own with the popular 
heart. To do this successfully, I know that I 
must draw directly upon the world’s experience, 
and upon the results of my own individual think¬ 
ing, acting, living. I know that no truth can be 
uttered by a soul that has not realized it in some 
way with hope to be heard. Perceptive wisdom 
that has not been vivified by life has in itself no 
affinity for life. 
Trust. 
Everything good in a man thrives best when 
properly recognized. Men do about what we ex¬ 
pect of them. If a man with whom I have business 
relations perceives that I expect him to cheat me if 
he can, he will commonly do it. If, on the contrary, 
he sees that I place implicit faith in his honor—that 
I trust him—everything good in the man springs 
into life, and demands that that trust be honored. 
The sordid elements of his character may possibly 
triumph, but they will triumph by a struggle 
which will weaken them. If I am unwilling to 
trust my son or my daughter out of my sight, I 
may reasonably expect to plant and nourish in 
them precisely those qualities which would make 
it dangerous for them to be out of my sight. If I 
refuse to trust the word of an honest man, I may 
reasonably expect that with me, at least, he will 
break faith at the earliest opportunity. If I place 
all men and women at arm’s length, in the fear 
that one of them will be treacherous to me, I place 
my self beyond the desert of good treatment at their 
hands—beyond the reach of their sympathies and 
their good will—in short, I insult them, and volun¬ 
tarily institute an antagonism which naturally 
breeds mischief in them toward me. So I advo¬ 
cate the policy of universal faith, as an essential 
condition of universal faithfulness—of universal 
trust as a pre-requisite for universal trustworthi¬ 
ness. The world does not half comprehend the 
principle of overcoming evil with good, but clings 
to the infernal policy of overcoming evil with evil. 
I know r of no power in the world but good, with 
which to overcome evil; and w r hen I see on every 
side exhibitions of a lack of personal honor, I 
know that I can foster the honpr that remains in 
ho way except by recognizing it and calling it into 
development by direct practical appeal. 
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Labor. 
Humanity is constitutionally lazy. I have yet 
to see the first child take naturally to steady work, 
or the first young man look forward with no desire 
to an age of ease. There are multitudes of men 
who love work, but they have learned to love it, 
and have learned that they are made truly happier 
by it. We are all looking forward to some golden 
hour when we may “ retire from business,” read 
the newspapers at leisure, drive a pair of steady 
bay horses, walk to the post-office with a well-fed 
belly and a gold-headed cane, and be free. I do 
not believe that any man ever became thoroughly 
industrious, save under the impulsion of motives 
outside of the attractions of labor. We labor, be¬ 
cause it is necessary for us to labor for sustenance, 
or to achieve an object of ambition, or because idle¬ 
ness is felt to be a greater evil than labor. The 
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WOMAN WITH WATER-SKIN — TURKISH SOLDIER —ARAB SPINNING. 
The present year we have given several illustra¬ 
tions showing the present manners and customs 
in Palestine, illustrative of the Holy Scriptures. 
With one more number we shall close the series. 
The engraving above shows the dress and general 
appearance of the Turkish soldier, the primitive 
style of Spinning , still common among the Arabs, 
and the Water Skins, or Bottles, to which allusion 
is so frequently made in the Bible. 
Mrs. Johnson says, “ the use of these still pre¬ 
vails extensively throughout the East, and altho’ 
earthen jugs are also used, the former are greatly 
preferred, and much more common. They are 
made of the skin of a goat or a sheep, and are so 
slightly mutilated by preparation for use, that 
they retain almost the exact shape of the animal 
from which they were made. They are hung on 
the back of a donkey, or more frequently a woman, 
and, having been filled with water, thousands are 
carried daily to the city. Abraham provided 
Hagar with a bottle of water on sending her to the 
desert; but, properly rendered, might it not be 
water-skin ? They are sometimes regularly tanned 
into leather. This was no doubt the material of 
the wine-bottles of the Gibeonitish spies, who 
* did work wilily, and went and made as if they 
had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon 
their asses, and wine-bottles old and rent, bound 
up.’ These bottles, from constant use, become 
rent, and when mended and patched give full 
proof of good service ancPj<jfl^y-t date. Hence, to 
put new wine in these old^Lottles would be utter 
folly, for the process of fermentation would cause 
them to ‘ break through,’ which would not be the 
case while new and flexible. 
“ Our camping ground being very near the well 
that supplies the village with water, I often met 
the village maidens there, who repaired thither to 
fill their jugs. Their usual time for drawing 
water is just before nightfall, and the office is al¬ 
ways performed by the women, as in the days of 
the Patriarchs; for we read that Eleazar, whom 
Abraham had sent to obtain a wife for Isaac, made 
his camels to kneel down without the city by a 
well of water at the time of the evening, even the 
time that women go out to draw water. And 
Rebekah, the very maiden whom he sought, ‘ came 
out with her pitcher upon her shoulder, and she 
went down to the well and filled her pitcher and 
came up.’ How often have I called upon fancy 
to imagine the retreating form of a Fellahah, with 
a vessel on her head or shoulder, and decorated 
with bracelets and ear-rings, to be the veritable 
Rebekah of old! 
“A stone trough is generally placed near the 
well, from which cattle are watered, and around 
it a flock of goats or sheep is usually gathered, as 
in the days of Jacob, who beheld a well in the field, 
and ‘ three flocks of sheep lying by it.’ And in 
another particular they agree with the wells of the 
days of the Patriarchs, in having the mouth cover¬ 
ed with a large stone of great weight, requiring 
the strength of two men sometimes to move it. 
The usual method of drawing water is with a jug 
or leathern bucket, let down by a rope tied to its 
mouth; and when the well has been long in use, 
deep incisions are made by the rope in the topmost 
lying stones. This method was no doubt referred 
to by the woman at the Well of Samaria, when 
she said, ‘The well is deep, and I Have nothing 
to draw with.’ It is also seen from Gen. xxix. 8, 
that the present manner of covering the well is the 
same as that which made it necessary for Rachel 
to require the greater strength of Jacob to roll the 
stone away, when she came to water the flocks of 
her father .”—Hadji in Syria. 
number of potatoes unearthed in the world “for 
the fun of it,” would not feed a flock of sheep. In 
fact, I believe that God made us lazy for a pur¬ 
pose. He did not intend that we should have any¬ 
thing but air and water costless. If labor were a 
pleasure, we should have really to pay for nothing, 
and, as a consequence, we should prize nothing 
that we have. All values have their basis in cost, 
and labor is the first cost of everything on which 
we set a price. But labor has a higher end than 
this, and I will try to reveal it. 
Patience. 
If there be one attribute of the Deity that aston¬ 
ishes me more than another, it is the attribute of 
patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne 
of the universe is not, never was, and never will 
be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, everything 
has been wrought out in the august consciousness 
of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology 
which gives me a key to the patience in which the 
creative process was effected. Man has but a brief 
history. A line of nineteen old men, centenarians, 
would, if they were to join hands, clasp the hand 
of Christ; and the sixtieth of such a line would 
tell us that his name is Adam, and that he does 
not know who his mother was. Yet this wonder¬ 
ful earth, unquestionably constructed with refer¬ 
ence to the accommodation of our race, was begun 
so long ago that none but fools undertake to reckon 
its age by the measurement of years. Ah! what 
baths of fire and floods of water; what earthquakes, 
eruptions, upheavals and storms; what rise and 
fall of vegetable and animal dispensations; what 
melting and moulding and combining of elements, 
have been patiently gone through with, to fit up 
this dwelling place of man ! When I look back 
upon the misty surface of the dimly retiring ages— 
the smoking track over which the train of creative 
change has swept—it fades until the sky of the 
past entirely shuts down upon the vision ; and I 
only know that far beyond that point—infinitely 
far—that train commenced its progress, and that, 
even then, God only opened his hand to give flight 
to a thought that He had held imprisoned from 
eternity! 
Youth. 
Our life’s ideal is always filled with the blood 
and breath of youth. Our finest conceptions of 
human beauty evermore embrace youth as their 
prime element. Strength, enthusiasm, hope, 
purity, love,—all these, when combined and em¬ 
bodied in their most attractive forms, rise in our 
imaginations as youthful attributes. So true is 
this, that in looking forward to the day when the 
dust of those who have gone before us to the land 
of spirits shall rise, and assume the forms they are 
to wear in the celestial city, there springs up al¬ 
ways a vision of their youth. We expect to meet 
the tottering father whose eyes we closed, and 
whose wasted and feeble limbs we composed, as 
young, and fresh, and strong as when he bore us 
to the baptismal font. There are to be no thin, 
silvery curls upon the brow of the mother, but in 
some sweet way, all the hallowed graces of mater¬ 
nity and the unfathomable tenderness of a soul 
disciplined by sorrow are to be associated—inter¬ 
fused—with the beauty and the youth of the bride. 
Immortality— twin-sister of Eternity — is always 
young, and brings no thought of age and decay. 
An angel with a wrinkle ? A cherub with a feeble 
ora weary wing? We cannot imagine such be¬ 
ings. Heaven and everlasting youth are insepa¬ 
rable thoughts. 
What we Love. 
Where the treasure is, there will the heart be 
also—the heart with all its manifestations of love, 
devotion, charity, and honor. I know of no good 
reason why the earth should differ essentially from 
heaven—why men may not so identify themselves 
with their highest treasures here that they will 
partake of the home feeliDg of those who walk in 
white upon the banks of the river of life—why 
they may not feel with relation to God and that 
which is most precious to Him—His children, His 
realm, His heaven—as they do toward their earth¬ 
ly father, the paternal mansion, and the brothers 
and sisters that cluster there. 
An Aspiration, 
Give us an age of gallant, chivalrous Christi¬ 
anity—of men who maintain the honor of their 
Father’s house. Give us an age that shall enlist 
the respect of all who respect earnestness and 
honor. Give us an age that shall appreciate that 
which it is fighting for, and will not crawl before the 
inferior and infernal powers that make war upon 
the throne. Give us an age in which Christians 
will fight for and stand by one another, and not 
fight against one another. Give us an age in which 
Christian manhood shall assert itself as the highest 
earthly thing and the noblest earthly estate. Give 
us an age that, instead of whining and groaning 
under the truth, shall rejoice in the truth. Give 
us an age which, lifted into identity with its 
highest possessions, shall be made by those posses¬ 
sions patient, pure, heroic, and honorable. Give 
us the blessed thousand years ! 
Sanders’Analysis of English Words, — Designed 
for the Higher Classes in Schools and Academies. 
By Ciias. W. Sanders, A. M,, author of “A Series 
of School Readers,” “ Speller, Deflncr, and Analy¬ 
sis,” “ Elecutionary Chart.” (lCmo.—pp. 240.] New 
York: Ivison & Phinney. 
This Analysis is similar in plan to “The Young 
Analyzer” and “The Analytical Manual,” works 
presented to the public by James N. McElligott, LL. 
D., and the design is to teach the analysis of those 
derivative and compound words in our language which 
have been taken from the Greek and Latin. Section 
first is devoted to an explanation of derivative and 
compound words. Then follow rules for spelling, 
explanations of .the prefixes, observations and exer¬ 
cises illustrating their use; derivatives made opposite 
in meaning by means of prefixes; derivatives formed 
by means of prefixes; explanations of the suffixes, with 
observations and exercises illustrating their use; radi¬ 
cals and derivatives defining each other; radicals and 
derivatives opposite in meaning; radicals combined 
with a variety of suffixes; compound words and mis¬ 
cellaneous derivatives and compounds — the whole 
presented in a simple and comprehensive form. For 
sale by Adams & Dabney. 
It is worthy of notice, that, while second 
thoughts are best in matters of judgment, first 
thoughts are always to be preferred in matters 
that relate to morality. — Rush. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
WEYER’S CAVE.-NO. EH. 
Descending a flight of steps, we enter Washing¬ 
ton Hall, the largest and most regular apartment 
in the cave. We turn aside, however, at the 
entrance, to visit the Theatre, a room in which 
the walls are thought to resemble a stage, pit 
and gallery. A small room at the side is called 
the Green Room. Returning to the Hall our 
attention is called to the beautiful masses of spar 
and crystals which stud the roof and walls, and 
to the formations which are scattered about in 
every variety of grouping. A group of three 
stalagmites standing not far from the entrance 
has been called the Crucifixion. About the centre 
of the Hall rises a statue seven feet in height, and 
covered with elaborately-wrought drapery. It is 
difficult to conceive a more perfect imitation of 
art,—under the imperfect light of the candles, 
the creamy hue- of the stone, the flowing folds of 
the drapery, the regular features, all contribute 
to the illusion, and it is almost impossible not to 
believe that it has received the finishing touches 
of the sculptor’s chisel,—this is Washington’s 
Statue. 
At your right rise two immense masses of rock, 
one of which is named the Rock of Gibraltar, and 
in the narrow passage between them—the Strait 
of Gibraltar—a tapering formation is denomina¬ 
ted, without much regard to geography, the Pyra¬ 
mids of Egypt. Pompey’s Pillar, Cleopatra’s 
Needle, Julius Ctcsar and Mark Antony are found 
at the further end of the Hall. This apartment 
is of uniform breadth and height, and perfectly 
straight from one end to the other. Its length is 
257 feet. 
Adjoining this Hall is Lady Washington’s Room. 
Here, an oval sheet of stalactite, about three feet 
in diameter, resembles, in shape and position, an 
old-fashioned toilet mirror. It leans from the 
wall about a foot at the top, and touching it at the 
bottom, forms the best “angle of reflection” for 
the toilet. Near the mirror is the toilet table, 
hung with folds of snowy drapery. A little room 
in the side wall is called the kitchen. 
Jackson’s Room, named in honor of the Presi¬ 
dent, contains nothing particularly noticeable. 
At the entrance of the Diamond Room is a large 
rock, some distance from the floor, covered with 
clear and perfect crystals. It is called the Dia¬ 
mond Bank, and as the guide, by means of a long 
pole, passes his lantern over it, ten thousand 
jewels flash back its rays with dazzling brilliancy. 
It is sometimes called the Fire-flies, a name more 
descriptive of its appearance, but no words can 
give any idea of its glittering beauty. 
Next in the main path is the Church. Here is 
the Organ, composed of a nujnber of perpendicu¬ 
lar stalactites, varying in size, and giving out 
musical tones, when struck, corresponding to the 
scale of notes. The Vestry and the Choir are on 
opposite sides of the room, and almost between 
them patriotism has assigned a pew to La Fayette. 
Above the Choir rises a spiral column of snowy 
whiteness, called the Steeple. It is forty feet in 
height and exquisitely beautiful. The resem¬ 
blance, however, is not very striking. It rather 
resembles an old-fashioned back-comb, of enor¬ 
mous size and elaborate workmanship, over which 
is thrown in careless folds a heavily-wrought 
white veil. 
A high and inaccessible rock, called Mont Blanc, 
guards the entrance to the Garden of Eden. Here! 
in a recess, we find Adam and Eve’s Bed-chamber, 
and near by, numerous stalactites depending from 
the reof meet the stalagmites below, and form the 
curious figure known a3 the Banian Tree. 
We now enter the Dining Room, a long aisle 
ninety feet in height, furnished with a dining 
table and other dining conveniences. Just beyond 
this room is a ledge of rock from twenty to forty 
feet in height, which may be easily surmounted, 
and from which an excellent view may be obtained. 
It is called the Giant’s Causeway. Upon its edge 
are several stalagmites, “ so grouped as to suggest 
the idea of sentinels watching in silent patience 
through the everlasting night.” The guide in¬ 
forms us that these are Napoleon and his soldiers 
crossing the Alps. A rough and narrow passage, 
called the Wilderness, brings us to Jefferson’s 
Room. Here are curiosities in abundance. 
The Half Moon is an oral stalactite of the purest 
white, resembling the rising or setting moon, and 
shown off to advantage by being placed against a 
wall of dull brown. A couple of statue-like stal¬ 
agmites standing near, bear the names of Minerva 
and her Shield, and Niobe in tears. The Ladies’ 
Toilet and the Gentlemen’s Toilet are at the fur¬ 
ther extremity of the room. On the other side is 
a beautiful recess called the Gothic !'Temple. 
Here is a spring of fine water, at which the com¬ 
pany stop to drink. Bertha Mortimer. 
Newark, N. Y., 1859. 
A great aim in family discipline should be to 
provide for each of the juveniles some line of 
pursuit which will give them a sense of their 
usefulness and necessity to the household. This 
feeling properly instilled into their minds will 
make them members of society valuable to others 
and happy in themselves. The Creator, who 
makes nothing in vain, does not in vain send 
human beings into the world if only they would 
find their places and fill them. Idle men and 
women are the bane of any community. They 
a”e not simply clogs upon society, but become, 
sooner or later, the causes of its crime and poverty, 
its folly and extravagance. In plain old English, 
every family motto should read:—“Besomebody; 
do something; bear your own load .”—Philadelphia 
American. 
THE FAIRS. 
The “Fairs” for another year are over. Both 
Old and Young America have made another 
annual bestowment of their tin upon i-tin-e rant 
showmen and peddlers, as also upon the numer¬ 
ous proprietors of eatables and (sad to say, in too 
many cases,) of drinkables, candy boys and all the 
other various money-taking enterprises with which 
people are constantly beset at such places of gath¬ 
ering. I said money-taking : any doubts in that 
quarter might speedily be dissipated by consider¬ 
ing the empty state of many previously well-filled 
purses, some of whose owners, after having spent 
the day and their money in gratifying their appe¬ 
tites, instead of observing fine cattle and sheep, 
return home in the firm belief that lairs are a 
humbug; that is, all but the pulling at the purse 
strings! But these evils (if we may so call them,) 
are but the necessary attendants upon the “Fair,” 
and due submission must be exercised, or rather 
one must be proof against them in order to fully 
carry out the original design of Fairs, viz., the 
display of products of industry for the notice and 
observation of the public. 
Fairs (or Agricultural Exhibitions, as has been 
shown to be the proper term,) would now-a-days 
seem to have become a popular institution ; a not 
unnatural conclusion when we consider their num¬ 
ber and the crowds that throng to them. They 
are the center of attraction to the youth in general 
and the Farmer’s Boys in particular, with which 
latter class it may be considered the chief holiday; 
and such being the case, they of course should be 
allowed to attend; and they generally are, but 
there are left about the country some farmers, 
relics of antiquity, who refuse to let their sons or 
their families attend the Fairs from an unfounded 
prejudice thereto. They class them with mowers 
and reapers, and new-fangled and worthless no¬ 
tions. Such men are brethren to the man who 
did’nt take the papers, and who still supposed 
John Tyler to be President. Of course it cannot 
be expected that the boys will profit very largely 
by the various improvements exhibited, though 
the more observing ones will do so. Yet, such a 
day of pleasure is necessary, as a change from the 
unceasing labor of the farm; and if they do spend 
a little money and appear to have derived no sub¬ 
stantial benefit, it will be found in the end that 
good will result. c. 
Livonia, N. Y., 1859. 
CELERY, KOHL-RABI, PEARS, &c. 
I have got into trouble, and do not know any one as 
able as you to help me out. I should like to know the 
be-t time to transplant asparagus and rhubarb—if in 
the fall, is it too late? How large should celery be 
before you begin to earth up ? I have a few, but think 
they are small. If they are too small, could I keep 
them over winter, and then set them out and they be 
good? Do they obtain cauliflower seed the same way 
as cabbage? What time should I sow kohl-rabi. I 
have quite a number of small cauliflowers, eighteen 
inches to two feet high—what can I do with them? My 
large ones are three or four feet high. Where can 
apple melon seed be obtained, and what price ? Please 
give a list of six or twelve of the best varieties of pears 
for the Central part of Illinois, and the best preparation 
for rich, black prairie loam. By answering these ques¬ 
tions you will confer a great favor on one friend and 
subscriber, and perhaps many. 
Princeville, Peoria Co., Ill. Young Ruralist. 
Asparagus may be transplanted, and bedsformed 
either in the autumn or spring, and Rhubarb the 
same, though we would prefer the fall for either, 
when convenient. Celery may be earthed up a 
little, sufficient to keep the leaves erect after they 
begin to grow after transplanting, and have made 
a few inches of growth. The main earthing up 
for blanching should not be done until the latter 
part of September or the beginning of October. 
Celery plants kept over the winter are worthless. 
Cauliflower seed is obtained just like cabbage 
seed. Plants that have not headed may be placed 
in the cellar before heavy frost, the roots in a little 
earth, and many of them will grow good heads. 
Kohl-rabi seed should be sown early in a nice bed 
like cabbage seed, and transplanted to the field or 
garden when about six inches in height. The 
Apple Melon seed, we judge, can now be obtained 
of most of the seedsmen at moderate prices. 
Prairie soil, as a general thing, needsj'draining, 
and if a little clay could be added all the better. 
Plant in a high and dry location. Among the 
hardiest pears for the "West, are Flemish Beauty, 
Buffam, Columbia, Dix, Winter Nelis, Fulton, 
Lawrence, Osband’s Summer, Oswego Beurre, 
Stevens’ Genesee, and Onondaga. 
PIE PLANT, PROPAGATING SCIONS, &c. 
I 1 am a reader of the Rural New-Yorker, and am 
anxious for a little information through its columns. If 
you will please answer the following inquiries, you will 
confer a great favor upon a young farmer: 
1st, What is the best way to propagate rhubarb or 
pie plant? 
2d. Can it be propagated successfully from seed ? 
3d. Will the kind produced/rom the seed be the same 
as that which produced the seed ? 
4t,h. Can scions and cuttings be preserved properly 
in moss, if kept in a cellar ? 
So. Onondaga, N. Y., 1859. A. M. W. 
1 st, 2d, 3d. Take up the large plants and divide 
the roots, leaving only one crown to each part, 
which will grow a new and strong plant in one 
season, and may soon be divided again. Rhubarb 
can be easily grown from seed. Sow it in a deep, 
mellow bed, and keep the ground clean, after the 
plants come up. After making one summer’s 
growth they may be transplanted. A plant raised 
from seed may not be like the parent plant in 
hardly any respect, or it may be very close in its 
likeness. In raising a hundred plants from seed 
you would have, most likely, a great variety as to 
appearance and quality— some worthless, some 
fair, and some very good. 4th. Scions may be kept 
in a cellar in dry sand. They should be kept as 
cool as possible without freezing, so as not to start 
the buds, and as dry as possible, so that they will 
not mildesv or rot, without causing the bark to 
shrivel. 
