ed month in the year. The mornings and are cool, but possess a delightful freshness, middle of the day is pleasantly warm and casionally, boasting

t evenings, which are as serene e their cerulean skies, and setting suns,

d clouds gold-feathered, as the summer ones. rning's walk' at this season is replete with on to the admirer of Nature's beauties. magnificent phenomenon is every day exhithe rising of the Sun! yet how common servation, that indolence and the love of vent a great part of mankind from contemhis beauteous wonder of the creation! Not , whose account of a sun-rise from the sea thampton, is a cabinet picture, which, like a by the poet in his plano-convex mirror he lakes of Cumberland, if we could fix it s living colours, would sell for a thousand

I set out,' says Gray, one morning beo'clock, the Moon shining through a dark ty autumnal air, and got to the sea-coast ough to be at the Sun's levee. I saw the and dark vapours open gradually to right and ing over one another in great smoky wreaths, tide (as it flowed gently in upon the sands) itening, then slightly tinged with gold and and all at once a little line of insufferable ess, that (before I can write these five words) own to half an orb, and now to a whole e one, rious to be distinctly seen'.' swallow now takes its departure for warmer . As swallows (says Cicero) are present with ammer, but are gone in winter; so false friends us in the sunshine of prosperity, but in the of affliction they all flee away.ndoah

To the SWALLOW.

Wanderer! at last thou comest awhile to reef
Thy restless sail, for vaster voyage bound,
Dark signal reading sage from ashen leaf,

Last blown of spring, and first decaying found-
I'll not reproach thy season's sojourning,

As wayward fancy's mood hath sometimes done,
With that bad faith, whose summer-wooing wing

Spurns fallen friends, and follows fortune's sun;
But I will bless thee, and pronounce thee blest,
Thou chartered libertine from winter's chain,
For that thou canst-till May-breeze breaks thy rest,
Warming thy little pulse to love again,—
Lay down thy head in safe, oblivious sleep,
Or speed to sunnier isles beyond the deep.

Lays on Land.

Many of the small-billed birds that feed on insects disappear when the cold weather commences. The throstle, the red-wing, and the fieldfare, which migrated in March, now return; and the ring-ouzel arrives from the Welsh and Scottish Alps to winter in more sheltered situations.

There are in blow, in this month, nasturtia, china aster, marigolds, sweet peas, mignionette, golden rod, stocks, tangier pea, holy-oak, Michaelmas daisy in fine weather quite clustered with bees; saffron (crocus sativus), and ivy (hedera helix). The following also may be added as flowering in September: The flowering rush, (britomus umbellatus), much esteemed by British botanists as being the only plant, a native of this island, which belongs to the class Enneandria of Linnæus; smallage (apium graveolens), the root of which in its wild state, when growing near water, is fetid, acrid, and noxious; but when cultivated it loses these properties, and the root and lower part of the leafstalks and stem, blanched by covering them up with earth, are eaten raw, and become the esteemed and well-known celery, a valuable antiscorbutic. This singular property is very common in the vegetable kingdom, and is a most powerful and

pleasing illustration of the beneficial effects of in

nd of the plastic properties of vegetables, om aerid poisons are converted into salualents. To these may be added the great saxifrage (pimpinella magna), the root of acrid and burning like pepper, and has ocly been used as a remedy for the tooth ache; t is more important for the ladies to know, ers as a cosmeticare inferior to none, being quickly removed by it. Those elewining and ornamental plants the convolbind-weeds, adorn almost every hedge with lk-white blossoms; which, contrasted with ing scarlet berries of the solanum dulcamara, profusion at the same time, give a pretty ape to the hedges; while over the ground bere scattered the yellow flowers of the toad irrhinum linaria), with scilla autumnalis, and esting flowers of the epilobium angustifolium, sion of which has an intoxicating property; n of the seeds has also been manufactured ckings by the natives of Kamtschatka.n ng the maritime plants may be named, the lass-wort (salicornia herbacea), and the seabill (erodium maritimum), on sandy shores; officinal marshmallow (althea officinalis) in rshes. lo antale

ous of the feathered tribe now commence tumnal music; among these, the thrush, the rd, and the woodlark, are conspicuous. The a russula and the saffron butterfly (papilio appear in this month. la sig in ts and weasels are now very active in the yards. Sometimes they are useful auxiliadestroying rats; but unfortunately they freattack the poultry. The weasel is much than the stoat, and may be known by a disJack spot on each side of the mouth. The coboth is a light brown, but in severe winters at is often found nearly white.

The common house-flies (notwithstanding the Michaelmas notice to quit, given in our last, p. 243) are numerous and troublesome, from their want of activity, as the weather decreases in warmth. A fly very much resembling this (stomoxys calcitrans) is : very troublesome to cattle, and also to man, by pricking the legs, which it is enabled to do by its hard sharp-pointed trunk: it is distinguished from the house-fly by this elbow-pointed trunk, when at rest, projecting horizontally from the mouth.

The woolly excrescences are now found on the dogrose (rosa canina), sometimes called spongia rosæ, bedegua, or bedeguar. They are formed by a small fly (cynips rose), which, piercing the tender bud with its sting, sheds a drop of liquid, together with its eggs. The circulation of the juices of the plant becomes impeded and irritated, and the leaves take the shape of hair-like filaments, curling into a ball; withinside this is the nest of young insects, first maggots, then chrysales, from which escapes the perfect fly, when the fungus becomes dry, and crumbles to pieces.

Some amusement may be derived from watching the dragging of ponds, in the number of singular insects that will be brought under notice. Many of these are the intermediate states of inhabitants of air in their perfection! A remarkable one is the larva of the dragon-fly (libellula), which is about an inch long, of a whitish-brown colour; it has a long body and large head. The unsightly aspect of the insect in this state, contrasted with its subsequent and splendid appearance, is worthy of notice.

Herrings (clupea) pay their annual visit to England in this month, and afford a rich awst to the inhabitants of its eastern and western coasts'.

Connected with the subject of herrings, is the following anecdote of his present Majesty when Prince of Wales:-The famous Lord

Rodney dining at Carlton House congratulated the Prince of Wales on

mnal equinox happens on the 22d of Sepd, at this time, the days and nights are ver the earth. About this period, heavy wind and rain are experienced, as well as al equinox.

aonth, Nature continues to pour out all her fruitery' from her Amalthæan horn, and to ngrateful man with a store of the most fruit ; . plums, round, and of blooming lden apples - glossy nuts ando asianp Ya! To Wood berries, voda ets and at blush in scarlet ripeness through the dew.ze escortend

e vine her curling tendrils shoots,80 T ngs out her clusters, glowing to the south, and scarcely wishes for a warmer sky. ersian vine-dressers do all in their power to vine run up the wall, and curl over on the de, which they do by tying stones to the y of the tendril. May not this illustrate that passage used in Genesis xlix, 22? Joseph ful bough; even a fruitful bough by a well, anches run over the wall. The vine, parin Turkey and Greece, is frequently made ine on trellises, around a well, where in the day whole families collect themselves, under the shade. (Morier.)

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