feathery tails of the seeds resemble tufts of wool. Several of the Gerardias, (class 14th, order 2d,) the yellow and purple, made, this month, a pretty show. The Mimulus Ringens, or monkey flower. These, and many others, served as texts for Dr. Solander to explain the science of botany to his young friends, and the field-flower bouquets compared very well with those of the garden.

SEPTEMBER.

THE days had now grown perceptibly shorter, and the mornings and evenings had become quite cool. The apple-harvest had come, and the children took much pleasure in joining in gathering the apples, assisting to spread them in the apple-chamber, and occasionally going to watch the business of cidermaking, which was attended to this month. They did not object to taste the new, sweet cider; and the favorite method of doing this was to suck it through a straw. After the apples had been ground in the mill, the juice pressed out, and made into cider, the remaining part, which is called pumice, and consists of the pulp and seeds of the apple, is sometimes made use of to form a hedge. A trench is dug, and the pumice thrown in. The seeds sprout and come up in a mass, and in a short time the plants which spring from them make a very close and pretty hedge. This method