Pyramus, a resident of Babylon, became enamored of This be. Their parents forbade marriage, but the lovers interohangec| sentiments through the aperture of a wall They agreed to meet at a given time at the tomb of Ninus, which was overshadowed by a mulberry-tree. Thisbe, first to come, was frightened by a lioness; as she fled, she dropped her veil, which the lioness left covered with blood. The lover soon arrived, and seeing This be's bloody veil, concluded she had been torn to pieces by wild beasts, and instantly stabbed himself. When This be returned, and saw the dying Pyramus, she, too, fell upon the sword, and the mulberry-tree was stained with the blood of the lovers, and ever afterwards bore fruit of that color. Think of it, when you eat mulberries! - The leaves of the olive-tree are not green; they resemble those of a hedge covered with dust. "I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God," should be translated vigorous. It is, notwithstanding, a lovely tree in an arid climate, and a favorite haunt for singing- birds, having a thin shade, sufficient to shelter them from excessiv heat, yet. not excluding much light.

The leaves resemble somewhat those of a willow, and the plant is classed among evergreens. - The superstitious ceremonies and histories belonging to some vegetables, have been not less surprising than ludicrous; the Druids are said to have cropped the mistletoe with a golden sickle, and the bryony was said to utter a scream when its root was drawn from the ground; the animal that drew became diseased, and died; on which account, when it was wanted for medicine, it was usual to loosen and remove the earth, and then, to tie it by a cord to a dog's tail, who was whipped to pull it up, and was then supposed to suffer for the impiety of the action. More recently, bits of the dried root of bryony were. rubbed smooth, and strung, and sold under the name of anodyne necklaces, to facilitate the growth of children's teeth; we have met lately with people of education who believed and practised carrying a horse-chestnut in each coat-tail pocket, as a remedial agent! - In Gerarde's Herball, printed in 1633, he says: "Wine made of the juice of pears, being taken in small quantities, com-fbrteth and warmeth the stomach, and causeth good digestion." Of a certain Parson Bod-nome's apples, is this quaint remark: "The hogs are fed with the fallings of them, which are so many, that they make choice of those apples that they do eat, who will not taste of any but the best.

An example, doubtless, to be followed of gentlemen who have lands and livings." - One of the processes employed by the Chinese and Japanese for dwarfing their little, stunted, specimen trees, is, as soon as they have germinated, to smear them with, fluid honey, or dissolved sugar; they keep them in a little box, with a small glass for light, and intvoduce a nest of ants, whose eggs soon hatch and produce an active colony, greedy of sugar, and incessantly running over the plants. The everlasting play of these insects keeps np a peculiar excitement, which ends by producing the state of dwarfness so much admired by the fashion of that part of the world. They will sometimes show you a fir-tree/ in perfect health, three inches high. After the late Chinese war, some magnificently small trees were sent as a present to Queen Victoria; Sir Wm. Hooker examined them, and found their roots shackled id every conceivable way with wires, to promote their dwarf habit. - One of the great errors in keeping parlor plants is, to assemble too great a variety.

A few kinds bear the heat of a living room very well; one plant, well tended, and in fine health, will afford more-pleasure than twenty naif-nurtured; we are induced to. the remark, by having lately seen a Catalonia jasmine covering a large space, and running over the inside of a window. Mr. Kilvington, of this city, unites a number of elegant climbers in one pot, and, when in fine health and vigor, nothing can be more beautiful. But there can be no such thing as floral health without fresh air, and enough of it. - It is often asked, what plants will best protect a loose or sliding bank of earth, such as is made by a deep out of a railroad? The Silver Poplar for trees, and the Osage Orange, and the Sea Buckthorn, for shrubs/ and the Lucerne and the Arundo arenaria among grasses, are the best available. The roots of the Lucerne grow three feet in a season, and form a very strong mat of fibres. It will continue, in a good soil, about fifteen years. - Two of the great errors of American gardens will be found to be the following: The walks are not kept fill of gravel, which gives them a harsh and depressed look.

Secondly, the flower beds are not kept covered with foliage; they thus expose unsightly patches of soil, which dries and bakes in the sun; verbenas, by regular pegging down their shoots, cover the ground thoroughly, with proper care. - A'correspondent calls our attention to the circumstance, that when writing of the Persimmon, we omitted to mention the efforts made in 'France to improve this American wilding. M. Audibert produced, some years ago, a seedling with large, round fruit, as large as a hen's egg, of a golden yellow color, and an agreeable flavor. Vague rumors have reached us that this new variety has been introduced in one of the Southern States, If so, we should be glad to hear more of it. - Old John Evelyn, in .his "Philosophical Discourse of Earth, etc," printed in 1676, says: "Fruit-trees do generally thrive with the soil of neats and hogs; most flowers with that of sheep, but especially roots. Peter-Hondins tells us, that by the sole application of sheep's dung, he produced a raddish-root as big as half a man's middle, which, being hung up for some time in a butcher's shop, people took it for a hog." - What plant is this, described by the same quaint old writer? "Some vast timber-trees have little or no mould adhering to their roots; such is that beautiful stranger, the Japan Lily, called by those of Gurnsey, la belle de nuit; and a certain Palm of the same Japan, which shrinks and dries at the least touch of water, as if it were laid before the tbet which is, it Seems, the only remedy that restores it, or the sudden replanting it in scales of iron, or the most burning sand." - To convert cheap cotton stuff to a substance for sheltering or forcing plants, after the cloth is stretched to its place, paint it with, a mixture of three pints of best boiled linseed oil, four ounces of white resin, and one ounce of sugar of lead; the oil and resin must be a little heated to mix them, and the sugar of lead must be first ground with a little of the oil, and then mixed with the remainder.