In a field leading to the Tors, at this place, is a gate which opens into the grounds of Mr. Shepperson's pretty Tor Cottage. Ail sorts of contrivances for keeping it shut having been tried in vain, the following simple and effectual plan was hit upon: An iron loop was driven into the middle cross rail of the gate; a rope was oast over the branch of a neighboring tree. A rough pole was then fitted at one end, with a staple long enough to work in the iron loop of the gate without jumping out when jarred. To this pole the rope was fixed at such a distance from the other end that, when suspended, and its staple dropped into the iron loop, the rope and pole would remain oblique when the gate was shut. The accompanying sketch explains this. When the gate was open, the pole was at the same time pushed back, but as soon as a person had passed through, the weight of the pole acting upon the middle of the gate closed it again, and as the pole swung freely on the rope, this could never fail to happen.

The Fig. A shows how the staple and iron loop fitted together. - Jael, Ilfracombe, in Gardener's Chronicle, To the two Michauxs (father and son), chiefly, are the French plantations indebted for their surpassingly rich collections of American trees and shrubs, which long since gave rise. to the remark that an American must visit France to see the productions of his nativeforests. When shall it be said that the statement it no longer true? When shall we be able to point to a complete, or even a respectable American collection of our indigenous trees and shrubs!