THE

WEYMOUTH PINE.

THIS pine, which in America attains to the height of one hundred feet, in this country seldom reaches any thing like perfection. Mr. Hanbury thinks that it will grow easier than any other sort of pine; I have tried it frequently with little success; and except in very choice situations, its shrivelled head and yellow bark have soon betokened approaching decay. The soil it is most partial to, is a sandy loam. It will bear no aspiring neighbour, and seldom makes its way in plantations without much attention being paid to its not being crowded. Masts of ships are made from this wood, which occasioned Queen Anne to make a law for encouraging it in England, where it was first brought by Lord Weymouth. Although we may despair of reaping much profit from its cultivation, the delicate smoothness of

its green bark, and its branches so redundantly garnished by long and slender leaves, will make it an object of the ornamental planter's attention and care.

THE YEW.

Beneath the rugged elms, the yew tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

GRAY.

THIS tree is indigenous, and formerly was an object as deserving attention as the oak now is. Of it our ancestors made the bow, which none but an Englishman was supposed to be able to bend. The durability of its wood, neither yields to the eleinents or fears damp. Although it seldom reaches any considerable altitude, and is of slow growth, it often expands into a majestic trunk. Such is the yew at Fotheringall, near Taymouth, in Scotland, which measures fifty-eight feet in circumference, and such the yew tree in the beautiful vale of Lorton, in Cumberland, which, before it was injudiciously cropped, was said to have overshadowed an acre, and to be worth £200. I have seen it, and can believe the statement. Paterdale

boasts a noble yew in its romantic church yard. Indeed, that situation was frequently selected for them; whether to guard the building from storms, or to furnish immediate supplies for the bow, or whether as an emblem of immortality from being evergreen, or to carry on Palm-sunday (when yew was frequently substituted for palm), is uncertain. It flourishes in good soil, but may be found in its native state upon the hills that bound Windermere, and on many precipices in other parts of the kingdom. No wood, when its grain is fine (mahogany not excepted), makes more beautiful furniture.

THE THORN.

"With blushful look, the sweetbrier courts the thorn,
"Hung on his arm, her easy weight is born."

EVERY farmer in Britain acknowledges the great utility of this plant; it forms an impenetrable fence, and for the first few years when planted, it will render a good account to weed it frequently and manure it. The goodness of a thorn hedge bespeaks often the fertility of the adjacent land. The beautiful flower it bears, was esteemed, in old times, by the happy villagers, and always graced their rural entertainments. Samuel Taylor, Esq. of Moston, in Lancashire, has received a medal from the society for encouraging arts, manufactures and commerce, for discovering, that the best method of raising quicksets is, by cutting the roots into pieces of about four inches long, and planting them nearly over head, with the thin end downwards. By this mode stronger and better plants will be raised in three years, than by the common mode of raising them from the haw, can be produced in five or six years.