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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[March 27. 
when such an authority in fruit-culture comes forward 
to correct us. In a letter just received, March 1G, he 
says:— 
“ To convince you that you are wrong, I have sent you the 
three varieties as follows :—1. The Double-bettrim / (the ori- ! 
ginal sort). 2. Rogers's Victoria, of the same habit as I 
No. 1.; i.e., giving only one autumnal crop, but with fruit a 
little larger. 3. Large-fruited Monthly. It is Framboisier 
de tons les mots a ires gros fruits of the French. This, as 
you vdll see, is very distinct; it is a robust grower, and gives 
a succession of fruit till the frost destroys them. Plant 
them all in your garden in a rich soil, cut them down when 
planting to within three inches of their roots, and watch 
them in the autumn." 
We opened the pages where occurs this drawing of 
the olive—that plant which announced to Noah peace 
between God and mankind; and, as if every circum¬ 
stance should aggravate the crime, it was amid the 
shadows of the same plant that man betrayed the Prince 
of Peace to his murderers. 
We have obeyed, and shall obey, the directions to the 
letter. Our readers shall know the result; and we hope 
to he able to say there are three varieties gifted with 
such useful times and powers of production. 
“ Every sentence of the Bible,” says Bishop Horsley, 
“ is from God; and every man is interested in the 
meaning of it.” It is avast storehouse of knowledge; 
and whether we refer to it for those priceless precepts 
which can make us wise unto salvation, or for rules to 
guide us among the things of time; whether we refer to 
it as a history of the first birth of nations, or for a 
knowledge of their customs and productions; whether 
we consult it for information as to the dawn and advauce 
of the arts and sciences, or whether we look to it as an 
unchangeable archive of our mother-tongue; from each 
and all of such references, no man shall turn away un¬ 
satisfied. Nor is this all; for, as Professor Gaussen 
observes:— 
“ Its language is unconstrained, and without reserve : it 
speaks of every tiling, and in every form of words: it is the 
prototype, it is the inimitable model: it has inspired all 
that poetry has produced in its most elevated character, 
j Ask Milton, the two Eacines, or Young, and Ivlopstock: 
they will tell you that its divine strains are by far the most 
j harmonious, commanding, and sublime: it rides upon a 
1 cherub, and walks upon the wings of the wind. And yet 
| this book never does violence to facts, nor to the principles 
of sound natural philosophy. Never in one single sentence 
will you find it in opposition to the just ideas which 
science has given us regarding the form of our globe, its 
magnitude, and its geology; or respecting the void and vast 
expanse; or the inert and obedient materiality of all the 
stars; or the planets, their masses, courses, dimensions, and 
influences; or the suns which people the depths of space, 
their number, nature and, immensity. In like manner, in 
speaking of the invisible world, and on the new, unknown, 
and difficult subject of angels, this book will not exhibit 
even one of its authors who, in the course of the 1,500 years 
which have been occupied in producing it, has varied in the 
character of love, humility, fervour, and purity, which be¬ 
longs to these mysterious beings.” 
We were led into this reflection by the one-shilling 
part of the new and cheap edition of The Pictorial Bible, 
which is now before us,—a work which Dr. Chalmers se¬ 
lected for his daily study, and which every one should 
have upon his hook-shelf. We say every one, because, 
whilst it is replete with engravings, and with Dr. Kitto’s 
notes, illustrative of the customs, productions, and 
geography of all nations mentioned in its pages, there 
is not one theological comment or doctrinal interpreta¬ 
tion, so that no man’s tenets can he offended. 
We find, from the same pages, that the olive was one 
of the earliest of cultivated plants; for the oil made 
from its berries was poured by Jacob upon the pillar 
that he set up as a memorial in Bethel (Gen. xxviii. 18). 
That oil was one of the chief sources of wealth to the 
Israelites; and when it is said that oil gave them a 
cheerful countenance, it was not only because it served 
to anoint their bodies, but because it was burnt in their 
lamps, entered largely into their food, and its wood 
formed portions of their most sacred structures (1 Kings 
vi. 31). The demand for olive oil, therefore, was very 
extensive; and it was a valuable product of their soil, 
not only as a supply for home consumption, but because 
it enabled them to carry on an extensive commerce with 
the Tyrians (Ezek. xxvii. 17; 1 Kings v. 11). Hence, 
when a fertile country was described, it was described as 
a land of olive-trees (Deut. viii. 8); when a day of 
punishment was threatened, it was to be a time when 
the fruit of the olive should fail, and when the palmer 
worm should destroy the trees in their full vigour (Deut. 
xxviii. 40; Amos iv. 9). So, on the other hand, the 
evidence of a blessing being upon the people is spoken 
of as the times when their store of oil increased, and 
their children grew around them like olive plants (Psalm 
cxxviii. 3). Of the culture of the olive we have not 
much information in the sacred pages; but of the extent 
and importance of the olive-yards, we have the evidence 
that they had appointed keepers, and other keepers of 
their produce (1 Chron. xxvii. 28). The chief fact in 
their culture handed down to us is, that, in common 
