A book, by M. Field, on Rural Architecture, just published in New York, by Miller & Company, asserts that the greatest lovers of the country, are those who live in cities 1 This will be news to most. - A gardener, the other day, made a calculation that he could find work in the village gardens where he resides, but about ninety days in a year. The business begins in April or May, and ends in August or September; take away from one hundred and fifty days the rainy and the Sundays, and it will be discovered he is nearly correct. We have thus about eight months of wintert as he would say, at the North. It is bad enough, we admit, and we shall never scold very hard at those who seek a milder climate after Christmas. The first question two acquaintances or friends put to each other is: " How do you do?" proving that health is uppermost in our appreciation of happiness. The second expression is: "Fine weather to-day I" proving, also, that after health, the greatest blessing is the enjoyment of a fine day. The weather to us, in fact, is somewhat the same as the water to the fish.

It is a less dense medium, but we move and swim in its air as fish do in water, and it is a great consideration whether that medium be dirty or clear, cold or warm, depressing or exhilarating; therefore, it is wise to leave the South in the warmest weather, and flee to the mountains, and also to leave the North in the coldest, and flee to Florida or Cuba. - -Sir William Hooker writes to a valued American correspondent: "This week I have received a fine collection of museum objects from Java, and another from the Falkland Islands. Among the latter, a splendid specimen of the "Balsam Bag" (Bolax glebaria), two feet high and ten feet in circumference - a compact hemisphere, this erne specimen weighing four cwt." Do any of our readers know more about this production! - Upon the coast of Provence, there is a portion of the Mediterranean called La Prairie, or the Meadowy Sea, the bottom being covered with plants. Such plants, it is supposed, were at the bottom of the Bed Sea when a green field was opened for.