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month of October on account of its steady, is chosen for the brewing of such liquor as is designed for  keeping. The farmer continues to sow his corn, and the gardener, forest and fruit trees. Many of our readers, though fond of gardens, will learn perhaps for first time that trees are cheaper things than  and that at the expense of not many shillings}}, they may plant a little shrubbery, or  skreen for their parlour or study windows, of, guelder-roses, bays, arbutus, ivy, virgin's , or even the poplar, horse-chestnut, birch, , and plane-tree, of which the Greeks  so fond. A few roses also, planted in the, to flower about his walls or windows in succession, are nothing in point of  to roses or other flowers purchased in pots  of the latter are nevertheless cheap and long-, and may be returned to the nursery-man at  small expense, to keep till they flower again. But if the lover of nature has to choose between or flowering shrubs and trees, the latter,  our opinion, are much preferable, inasmuch as  they include the former, they can give a more retired and verdant feeling to a place, and  to mind, even in their very nestling and closeness, something of the whispering and quiet amplitude of nature.

"Fruits continue in abundance during this month, as every body knows from the shop-keeper; nor for grosser senses are well informed, if our