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deterred from making the attempt, provided a few necessary conditions are at hand. A win dow having a southern, exposure is the best, but one fronting either the east or west will do very well. Have a table made of the width of the window, and nail on the four sides a strip about two inches wide; the corners should be tightly joined. This makes the top of the table a shallow box, which is to be filled with clean white sand, which not only catches the water that falls in watering the plants, but evaporates a moisture congenial to their health. The legs of the table should be furnished with rollers, and it can then be readily moved from the window at night when the weather is severe. table of this kind can be placed at one or more windows, as may be convenient. Its advantages over the ordinary flower stand are too manifest to need specification. The plants should be arranged in such manner as to have the tallest at the back and sides of the table; but no arrangement of the plants should be permanent; their position should be changed from time to time, so that all may receive a due share of sunshine, and different sides of the plants should be presented to the light to insure a uniform and symmetrical growth. Soft-wooded plants need more light than hard-wooded kinds. All these various conditions may be met by proper attention and occasional changes, and the plants kept in a healthy growing condition. In mild, pleasant weather, the window may be thrown open to admit fresh air.

Much care is needed in watering: the earth must not be soddened with water, neither should it be suffered to get so dry as to cause the plants to wilt. It is quite necessary to sprinkle the foliage frequently; and for this purpose, and also for watering the plants generally, a watering-pot with a finely-pierced rose is the best thing that can be used. The spout should be at least two feet long, to facilitate the watering of plants in the middle of the table. The top of the table being filled with sand, water may be freely poured over the tops of the plants without risk of soiling the carpet; the sand is thus kept always wet, and by evaporation produces a moist atmosphere around the plants very conducive to their health.

There are some kinds of plants better adapted to room culture than others; and we here add the names of some of the best, from which a selection may be made. The list of annuals we gave in our last all succeed well in a room, and will bloom freely; but the easiest to manage are Sweet Alyssum, Lobelia gracilis, and Mignonnette. Of perennials, the following are best: Azaleas, Cactæ, Primula Chinensis, Scarlet Geraniums, Calla Ethiopica, Oxalis, Ixias, Babianas, Oranges, Lemons, Hyacinths, Tea Roses, Coronillas, Verbenas, Petunias, Cupheas. The list might be extended, but it is best to begin with a few plants of the easiest culture; and when experience has been gained, others of more difficult culture may be added.

It will be necessary to repot the plants at times to meet the demands of increased growth, as well as to prune them occasionally, and to keep the surface soil open and the pots clean. Insects will also need looking after sharply. These and other topics we must recur to hereafter. We have already extended this article

beyond the length we wished; but the subject is both interesting and important, and we could not say less with any hope of making the subject of practical value; we shall not regret the space if we shall succeed in inducing even one of our readers to take up this elegant and instructive pastime. We are really in earnest about this subject, and hold ourselves ready to answer all queries the fair reader may propound.

Blackberries.-The demand for this fine fruit is on the increase, and now exceeds the supply. The cultivated varieties should be extensively grown to supply the markets of our large cities. The culture is not difficult, and the crop is a profitable one if grown within a reasonable distance of a good market. It is usual to plant in the spring, but we have met with almost uniform success in fall planting, and recommend it to others. A sandy loam of good body or a well-drained clayey loam is well adapted to its growth. The ground should be plowed deep and heavily manured. Plant in rows four feet apart; the plants are usually placed three feet apart in the rows; but we think this rather too close. Weeds must be kept down, and the ground mellow, by the use of a light plow and the hoe. All the wood that has fruited must be cut out early the following spring, and the leading shoot and the laterals shortened in. Suckers must not be allowed to come up at random; all except those immediately round the "stool" must be destroyed on their first appearance; otherwise there will in time be such a mass of cane as to set cultivation at defiance.

In regard to kinds, the Dorchester (Boston High Bush) and the New Rochelle are the best for market. The first named is the handsomest, sweetest, and best flavored berry; the latter is somewhat more productive, and perhaps a little more hardy; but both will go through our ordinary winters uninjured. The New Rochelle is sometimes called the Lawton, but very improperly. Mr. Lawton has not the shadow of a claim to give it his name; and we are glad to see that this name is beginning to be repudiated by pomologists and horticultural societies all over the country. Two or three new varieties of blackberries have lately been brought before the public, but we have not seen enough of them to be able to speak of their merits.

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Hyacinths. The ground for these may be prepared the same as for tulips. Plant the bulbs three inches deep, either in beds or clumps; and if the colors are known, arrange them with reference to the best effect. The outdoor treatment of the hyacinth is very much the same as that of the tulip, and the directions given for that will apply here. Hyacinths are often grown in pots and glasses. The single varieties are best for these purposes. The soil should be a mixture of rich loam and sand; pint pots are large enough for a single bulb; put drainage in the bottom of the pot, and fill up with soil, just covering the crown of the bulb. Water freely when in bloom. When grown in glasses, just the bottom of the bulb should touch the water, which should be changed at least once a week. Hyacinths are not only beautiful, but many are exquisitely fragrant. They are great favorites, especially with the ladies.

The Garden.-Everything about the garden should now be put in order for the winter. Cut off the tops of herbaceous plants; tie up such as are liable to be broken by the lodgment of snow; clean off the walks; if the soil is stiff and heavy, spade it up rough, to be mellowed by the winter frosts; if you have plenty of manure, give the flower borders a coating of it; top dress the lawn, if necessary; protect with straw or manure all half-hardy plants; and otherwise see that everything is in condition to be safe from accident during the winter. A little care and attention to theso matters now will save much labor in the spring, and your plants will be the better for it.

Tulipe. These may continue to be planted as long as the ground can be worked. The soil should be deeply spaded and enriched with good old manure. They may be planted in beds, clumps, or rows, or in any form the fancy may suggest. When planted in beds, verbenas, petunias, etc., may be put in between them in the following spring; the bulbs should be lifted as often as every third year, and divided. Two inches is sufficiently deep to plant them. The single varieties are best for outdoor culture, and are more generally admired than the double ones.

Brooklyn Horticultural Society.-This active and vigorous young Society held its annual exhibition at the Athenæum on the 23d and 24th of September. The exhibition was one of the best yet held, and was well attended. The display of fruit was fine, but the great feature of the exhibition was the large collection of specimen plants. We have no room for details, but we cannot help saying that such plant growers as Louis Menand, Martin Collopy, George Hamlyn, J. E. Rauch, etc., deserve a high meed of praise for the great care and manifest skill exhibited by their splendid specimen plants. This society is moving on with a steady determination which promises to make it the leading society of the State, if it is not already so. We wish it great success.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. A map of busy life,

Its fluctuations and its vast concerns.-COWPER.

The Rev. James B. Finley, a well-known minister, and for many years a missionary among the Indians, died at Eaton, Ohio, September 6th. He was a native of North Carolina, and had reached the ripe age of seventy-six. . Thomas Dick, LL.D., author of the "Christian Philosopher," and of several other valuable works, recently died at his residence in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, in the eighty-third year of his age. Dr. Rufus W. Griswold died in this city, on the 27th of August. He was born in Rutland County, Vt., February 15, 1815. Early in life he was ordained as a Baptist minister, but soon left that profession to devote himself entirely to literature, and was successively connected with the weekly papers, the New Yorker, the Brother Jonathan, the New World, and the monthly publications, Graham's Magazine and the International Magazine. . . . A National Compensation Emancipation Society was organized at Cleaveland, Ohio, in August last. Its object is declared to be the extinction of American slavery by contributing to the compensation of slaveholders for their losses in the emancipation of their slaves. Professor Silliman, of Yale College, was elected president; and Elihu Burritt, corresponding secretary.... At a Convention of

New School Presbyterians held at Richmond, Virginia, resolutions were adopted to the effect, that inasmuch as the relation of master and servant does not properly belong to church judicatories as a subject of discussion or inquiry, therefore, that it is resolved by this Convention that the General Assembly of the Church has no power to pronounce a sentence of condemnation on a lower judicatory, or individuals, for any cause, unless they have been before the Assembly in the way prescribed by the constitution; that the Convention recommends all Presbyterians opposed to the agitation of slavery to appoint delegates to the Assembly to meet at Knoxville, on the third Tuesday in May next, for the purpose of organizing a General Synod, under the name of the United Synod Presbyterian Church of America.... One of the greatest hail storms on record visited some parts of Green County, Pennsylvania, in the month of August last. The hail came down in a perfect torrent; the stones varied from the size of a partridge's to that of a hen's egg, and came with such force, and in such quantities, as to do great damage to nearly everything in the track of the storm. Shingle roofs were split to pieces, the growing corn was perfectly stripped of its blades and shoots, the apple trees were left naked of leaves and barren of fruit, the buckwheat was entirely destroyed, the forest trees were left almost as naked as in mid winter, and the fruit trees of all kinds were almost entirely stripped of their foliage and fruit. The fowls which were without shelter were killed by the weight and force of the hail stones... The Minnesota Constitutional Conventions closed their sessions at stitutions produced by both bodies were identical. St. Paul after deliberating for seven weeks. The conThey were regarded as fully meeting the requirements of the public welfare. An interesting report has been received by the War Department from the superintendent of the Wagon Road Expedition from Fort Defiance. The camel experiment is pronounced successful. These animals carried seven hundred pounds burden each, principally provender for mules, and were much less jaded than the mules. Their temper, tractability, capacity for bearing burdens, and going without water, while they live on food upon which other animals would starve, render them valuable for transportation on the prairies. . . . The Steamship "Arago" was boarded on the 6th of September, off Cape Race, by a fishing smack, when only eight days out from Southampton, and telegraphed from St. John's, Newfoundland, to New York. This was the first successful result of an experiment which has for some time been projected; and until the completion of the Atlantic telegraph, we may look to the frequent receipt of European advices of only a week old; after which, we shall have it daily perhaps. The Centenial Anniversary of the birthday of Lafayette was appropriately celebrated in New York on the 7th of September, by the Garde Lafayette and a number of French and American residents, who partook of a banquet at Jones's Wood.... The new steam frigate "Roanoke" broke her back on being launched from Norfolk a few months since. She has to be built anew about midships, at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.

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A curious law question arises in the lapsing of a legacy which recently came before the Surrogate of New York. Mr. McLoskey, a gentleman worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, dying in Paris, left six thousand to a niece in Dubuque, Iowa, who died on the same day as himself. If the hour of her death preceded his, the legacy lapsed, if it succeeded his the legacy is vested in her. The time of their decease was so nearly identical that it is supposed it will have to be determined by the difference between solar and true time, the legacy thereby depending upon a question of longitude. The late Convention with New Granada covers only the matter of claims of American citizens against that republic. New Granada regrets the Panama massacre, and promises to punish the offenders when convicted. A commission is to pass upon all claims of American citizens against New Granada from 1818 down to the Panama riot. One half the sum annually paid by the Panama Railroad Company is to go toward satisfying the claims. The balance of the claims is to be otherwise provided for. Our government is allowed the privilege of purchasing an island in the bay of Panama for a coal depot, and our citizens and mails are to be exempted from annoying and oppressive taxes on the transit of the Isthmus. . . By the will of Mrs. H. H. Coalter, who died lately, ninety-two negroes were set free in Stafford County, Virginia They are to go to Liberia, or whatever freo State they may select. The forty-eighth annual meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for

Foreign Missions met at Providence, Rhode Island, in September, and was largely attended. Eight hundred and forty laborers are employed by this society, at home and abroad, and there are nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-six children in the schools of the mission. Before the convention adjourned Dr. Armstrong read an autograph letter from the Hawaiin king. It was a very well written production, presented the need of a college at the Sandwich Islands, and expressed the hope that the project would be favorably received and liberally aided in this country. The Reformed Dutch Churches formally dissolved their relation to the Board, intending hereafter to conduct their own missionary affairs. . . . The corner stone of the Mariner's Harbor Baptist Meeting-house was laid in the city of New York on the 9th of September.

On the same day the corner stone of the new church edifice for the Methodist Episcopal congregation, formerly worshiping in Mulberry-street, was laid, corner of Twenty-Second-street and Fourth Avenue, New York. The church is to be of rough marble, built in the Romanesque style, and, with the ground, when completed, will cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. It is intended to accommodate about twelve hundred people.... The presentation of General Jackson's gold snuff-box to Major Dyckman did not take place at the time expected; Mr. Jackson declining to perinit the relic to pass from him, there being so many remonstrances sent to him denying that the major was New York's bravest son in the Mexican war. . . The Scott Legion, the remnant of the two Pennsylvanian regiments that served in the late war with Mexico, celebrated last month the anniversary of the entry of the American army into the Hall of the Montezumas, by a procession, after which they were addressed by several individuals, who distinguished themselves on the occasion, among whom was Major Dyckman.. Brigham Young is making the most fiery demonstrations against the action of our government in sending out troops and a new governor to keep him and his deluded followers within the bounds of reason. . . . The steamship “Central America" was lost in a terrible hurricane, off Cape Hatteras, on the 12th of September, when upward of four hundred passengers, the Californian mails, and nearly sixteen hundred thousand dollars in specie, were lost. ... The sternpost of a new flag ship for the Russian navy was raised at the yard of William H. Webb, in this city. There were present a number of distinguished officers and gentlemen, and all paid honor to the Czar for giving to an American mechanic the preference of building what is to be, when completed, the swiftest war steamer in the world. . . . The Attorney General has given his decision on a point of law submitted to him by the Secretary of the Interior, regarding the payment of pensions to children of deceased revolutionary soldiers. He decided that children had no legal right to pensions granted to deceased parents. . . The quantity of public land sold by the government during the last fiscal year was nearly 4,143,000 acres, and the amount realized upward of $8,500,000. The Commissioner of the Land Office has decided that railroads are to have no lands set apart until after actual survey and location.... General Scott has replied to General Pillow's recent elaborate revelations respecting the alleged bribery of General Santa Anna during the pendency of the war with Mexico. General Scott positively declares that he never gave Santa Anna a dollar. A terrible explosion occurred on the evening of the last day of September, in the Knickerbocker Plaster Works, situated in West-street, New York. The explosion blew to atoms the factory, a three story brick edifice, together with two or three brick dwellings adjoining, occupied by several poor families. A large number of persons were buried beneath the ruins, a few of whom escaped without injury, but the majority were either killed, or so badly wounded that their lives were despaired of... American Sunday-School Union, of Philadelphia, have published a card announcing the defalcation of the Corresponding Secretary, Mr. F. W. Porter, for an amount believed not to exceed ninety thousand dollars. He has issued notes and acceptances at various times to that amount without entering them upon the books of the Society.

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The Reports of the Harvest from all parts of Eurepe are most encouraging, and an abundant supply of food is promised. . . . The Divorce Bill was taken up in the House of Lords, last month, and a motion that the Commons amendments be taken into consideration that day six months was rejected by a vote of forty-four to sixty-six. The various clauses of the

bill were then debated with varying results, government in some divisions being left in a minority. The bill was finally passed.. Th ha barons atrocities perpetrated by the rebels in India continue to fill a large place in our latest English papers. It is said that at Cawnpore, on the 24th of June, in consequence of Sir Hugh Wheeler being mortally wounded, the force had accepted the proffer of safety made by Nena Sahib and the mutineers. Nena allowed them to get into the boats, and then fire was opened upon them from the banks of the river, and all were destroyed. The London Times, after dwelling on this inhuman act, and also upon the brutal manner in which the women were treated at Delhi before they were put to death, says: "It ought to be known, reluctant as we are to tell it, that the women and unmarried girls who fell into the hands of the mutineers and populace of Delhi were carried in procession for hours through the chief thoroughfare of the city, with every horror that could degrade them in the eyes of the people, previous to the last brutalities and cruelties that then, in the sight of thousands, were perpetrated upon them. It was done of settled purpose, to degrade England, to degrade Europe, to degrade a Christian empire, and a Christian queen. Now, we say it after full deliberation, and with a due regard to the objections always forthcoming against any real and effectual policy, that not one stone of that city should be left upon another. Delhi should for the future be only known in history as Sodom and Gomorrah, so that its place shall not be known." The ratifications of the treaty of amity and commerce between Great Britain and Honduras, containing the article guaranteeing the Honduras railway, have been exchanged in London. Senor Haran, the Honduras plenipotentiary, had re-opened negotiations on the Bay Island and Mosquito shore contentions, and there was every prospect that the modifications desired by Honduras would be at once conceded, in which case these conventions would immediately go into effect... The British Minister to China, Lord Elgin, had explained the Chinese policy of the English government to the people of Hong Kong. The Emperor of China must either disavow the acts of Yeh in Canton, or take the very unpleasant consequences. An American citizen had been convicted of piracy at Hong Kong, and sentenced to transportation for life. . . . The Rev. Dr. Livingston had attended a meeting of the Manchester Cotton Supply Association, Chamber of Commerce, etc., for the purpose of explaining the commercial reSources of Africa. He said that country was well adapted for producing cotton, sugars, etc., and he proposed to devote the next few years of his life to special efforts developing these pursuits in Africa. Resolutions were adopted calling on the government to furnish Dr. Livingston with a steamer to ascend the Bambest River, and to enlist the Portuguese government in favor of the enterprise. Letters from Lady Franklin's arctic steamer, Fox, at Baul's River, in Greenland, report the progress of the expedition, and say that it has exceeded expectations, and that the vessel answers admirably. The weather had been very severe, which would have the effect of breaking the ice up, and rendering the head of Baffin's Bay clear. Advices from Madrid state that Queen Christina had written to her daughter, Queen Isabella, that she should have the greatest pleasure in being with her at the period of her accouchment, but that she neither could nor would go to Spain while the Duke of Valencia was at the head of the government. . . . In Italy things are in a very unsettled state, and must sooner or later result in an outbreak. the success of which will, of course, be determined by the action of the great powers. England has enough on her hands at present to prevent her attempting any active interference in the political affairs of the continent. This fact, it was thought in some circles, would operate as a stimulus to Mazzini and his adherents. . . . The French Minister of Marine has issued an order to all captains of ships of war to give every aid to English vessels conveying troops to India, and to take them in tow when becalmed. An English troop ship having put into Algiers in distress, was towed thence to Gibraltar by s French steam frigate. The Chinese refused to allow the Russian mission to enter the country of Keakhta. It had consequently descended the Amoor in order to present itself at Shanghae. Russia is tak ing active measures to increase her fleet and strengthen her position in the Pacific. . . . A narrative of Prince Napoleon's Voyage in the North Seas will shortly appear, written by a Polish gentleman.

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was among the earliest animals domesticated by man, it seems surprising that we should have remained to the present day so little acquainted with its physiology and habits. In 1855 Congress resolved to make an experiment of introducing camels into the United States. $36,000 were appropriated to this object, the animals to be employed for military purposes under the War Department. The information acquired during the progress of this experiment is highly interesting, and the trial thus far has exceeded the expectations of success in the undertaking. VOL. XI.-36

To Major Henry C. Wayne, of the United States Army, was assigned the special duty of importing the camels, and Lieutenant D. D. Porter, of the United States Navy, was associated with him in the commission. Porter's orders were to set sail with the storeship "Supply" direct for Spezia, in Genoa Colonel Wayne took passage for Southampton in May, 1855. Through the politeness of Professor Owen, F. R. S., the Cuvier of England, he was introduced to Mr. Mitchell, the Secretary of the Zoological Society. In its garden the colonel found two fine specimens of the Egyptian