Plants clamber up every wall of masonry, burst in masses on every ledge, spread over and possess the tiled roofs, wreathe chaplets and crowns on ruined towers, and hang in festoons from every port hole of the bastion. They seem hanging out banners, and raising triumphal arches, to celebrate their victorious conquests over all that man has dared to oppose to their existence, in this, their natural unlimited empire.

Fruits

Rochester, N. Y., so justly renowned for its gardens and fine fruits, is becoming supplied with rare varieties, and it occurred to me that a memorandum kept of kinds not familiarly known, might be the means of inducing cultivators and amateurs to try those which are here mentioned, of apples ripe in August "Summer Rose," "Benoni," "Summer Queen," and "Early Joe," are first rate to our taste, and when well grown a great luxury. Of those nearly ripe now, (13th September,") the " Hawley," and " St. Lawrence," are excellent. There are few better, and although we would like some of your " Sops of Wine," we are quite content with, the two above, mentioned.

The " Summer Pearmain" will soon be with us; it is a very fine apple. We have just cut a " Duchine of Oldenburg," a beautiful sample, and found it a pleasant, tart apple, juicy and melting. The "Alexander" Li now in market, a very showy, red striped fruit, and fine for cooking.