36th Round.-K 2+, K 5, K 2 +, Tf, K1, K2, K 6. 37th Round.-K 1, Tf, K 2+, K2, K 2+, Tf, K 3. Tf, K 2 +, K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 1. 38th Round.-K 4, K 2+, Tť, K 5, Tf, K 2+, K. 4. 39th Round.-K 3, K 2 +, Tf, K 7, Tf, K 1; end with K 2. Then knit 3 plain rounds, and commence as follows, knitting 7 plain stitches, besides the seam stitch, at the beginning and end of each round: K 2+, K 3. 13th Round.-K 1, K 2 +, Tf K 4, Tf, 40th Round.-K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K. 9, Tf, S 1, K 2+, pass the S stitch over, Tf, K K2+, K 2. 4, Tf, K 2 +; and K 1 extra. 41st Round.-K 1, K 2 +, Tf, K 11, Tf, K 2+, K 1. 42nd Round.—K 2 +, Tf, K 13, Tf, K 2+. 14th Round.-K 2 +, Tf, K 4, K 2+, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2+, K 4, Tf, K 3+, repeat from *; end with K 2+. | 43rd Round.-K 1, * Tf, K 7, K 2 +, K 6, TE, K 2+, repeat from *. This concludes the Border. 15th Round.-K 4, K 2+, Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K 2+, K 3; end with K 4 instead of 3. 2nd Round.-K 3, K 2 +, Tf, K 2+, Tf, K 3, Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K 2 +, K 2; end with K 3 instead of 2. 3rd Round.—K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 2+, Tf, K 5, Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K 2 +, K end with K 2, instead of K 1. ; 1st Round -K 2 +, * Tf, K 2, K 2+, Tf, K 2, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K 2 + K 2, Tf, S 1, K 2+, pass the S stitch+, over, repeat from * ; end with K 2+, in- end with K 1 extra. stead of S 1. 4th Round.-K 1, K 2+, Tf, K 2+, Tf, K 7, Tf, K 2+, Tf, K 2 +; end with K 1 extra. 11th Round.-K 2 +, * Tf, K 3, Tf, K 2+, K 3, K 2+, Tf, K 3, Tf, S 1, K 2 +, pass the S stitch over; repeat from * end with K 2. ; 5th Round.-K 2 +, * Tf, K 2 +, Tf, K2, K2 +, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K 2, Tf, K2+, T, S 1, K 2+, pass the S stitch over, repeat from *; end with K 2+, instead of S 1. 12th Round.--K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 2, Tf, K2, K1, K2+, Tf, K 2, Tf, K 2 +, 6th Round.-K 1, K 2 +, Tf, K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 3, Tf, K 2 +, K 2, Tf, K 2 +; end with K 1 extra. 7th Round.-K 2, Tf, K 2 +, K 2, Tf, K2+, K1, K2+, Tf, K 2, K 2 +, T, K; end with K 2 instead of 1. 8th Round.-K 2, Tf, K 2 +, K 2, Tf, K2+, K1, K2+, Tf, K 2, K 2+, Tf, K1; end with K 2 instead of 1. 9th Round. Tf, K 2 +, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K2, Tf, S 1, K 2 + pass the S stitch over, Tf, K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 2; end with K1, K2+, instead of K 2. 10th Round.-Tf, K 2+, K 1, * Tf, K 2 +, K5, K 2+, Tf, K 7, repeat from *; end with K 4 instead of 7. 16th Round.-K 3, K 2 +, Tf, K 1, K 2+, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K 2; end with K 3. 17th Round.-K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 2, K 2 +, Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K 2, Tf, K 2 +, K 1; end with K 2. 18th Round.-K 1, K 2 +, Tf, K 3, K 2 Tf, K 1, Tf, K 2 +, K 3, Tf, K 2 +; The This round completes the Pattern. Repeat the Pattern 5 times. Knit 2 of the 7 plain stitches together at the beginning and end once in each Pattern, for 3 more Patterns; knit 2 together at the beginning and end twice during the course of each Pattern, for 2 more Patterns: then decrease at beginning and end once in every 3 rounds, for 2 more Patterns. Decrease once at beginning and end in every other round, for 10 rounds. Finish this Pattern, and knit 2 more Patterns without decreasing. Pattern will then have been repeated 15 times; there will be 123 stitches on the 3 needles. Take 31 stitches on each side of the seam, and pearl and knit each row alternately till the heel is 13 inch in length; then decrease on each side of the seam stitch, in every other row, till there are but 16 stitches on each side of the seam stitch; then knit the heel together. Pick up 32 stitches on each side of the heel. Continue the Pattern in front for 5 Patterns, knitting the under part of the foot plain. Then knit plain all round for 8 rounds; knit 2 together in front and back on each side of the foot (losing 4 altogether each time), every alternate row, till there are 20 stitches only back and front (that is, 40 altogether); knit these together, and the Stocking is complete. "Oh, who that has an eye to see, ground contiguous to a poor-house, and that in the neighbourhood of London, beside a dusty public road. Beautiful were they in that strange and uninviting place; many stayed their steps to look upon them, and thought perchance of far off village commons, and bordering corn-fields, where they had first gathered the small convolvulus. The purplish red corn-cockle (agrostemma githago), which derives a generic name from two Greek words, signifying a field, and coronet, is likewise trumpet-shaped, and rises to the height of two or three feet; nor less conspicuous is the red campion or campion-cuckoo flower (lychnis dioica), signifying a lamp, in allusion to the flamecoloured and flickering petals; or as some conjecture, from a fanciful resemblance of the semitransparent calyx to a lantern. Different species of the lychnis produce double flowers, either red or white, and are therefore often sought for by the florist. But wherever growing, whether among corn or pastures, or fallow fields, or springing from the fissures of rocks, as those of Craig Breiddin, in Montgomeryshire, or beside streams of water, they are objects of no ordinary interest, from the brightness or extreme delicacy of their deeply cloven petals. The scabiosa arvensis, or field scabious, is one of my favourite plants; her delicate blue, or bluish or even white globular head, formed of numerous florets, with white taper bristles appended to each, look well among the waving ears of corn. Unlike her sable tinted sister, the mourning widow, or musk button, which St. Pierre describes in his story of "Paul and Virginia," the species to which I refer presents a cheerful aspect, and no other plant is more frequently resorted to by gay-coated insects and bright butterflies, that find a restingplace on the tufted florets, and close and open their wings in the warm sunbeams. The cyanus, corn-flower, hurt-sickle or blue-bonnet, (centaurea cyanus,) often grows beside the scabious; they delight in the same locality, but the cyanus is best known, and most beloved of poets: J MANY corn-fields are yet unreaped, and there is something indescribably pleasing in their aspect at the commencement of the autumnal season, Flowers of various descriptions are everywhere conspicuous; some (like the scandia pecten, or common shepherd's needle, with its small white petals, and long graceful tubes, or the heart'sease (viola tricolor), a low growing yellowish white species, which hide beneath the arching grain) must be carefully sought for in their lowly birth-places; others lift up their heads, and beautifully diversify the rich brown rustling surface of the field; such is the convolvulus arvensis, or small bind-weed, which twines around the stalks, like the thyrsus of living green; her lot is humble, and she has not to bear the sternness of wintry storms, therefore she is not defended with a strong cuticle; but her leaves are slight and fragile, and her petals sometimes of a yellow hue, but more frequently pink, varied with white plaits; and he who passes by, often lingers to observe her sym-lilac, metry and beauty. Lovely indeed she is, as I once observed elsewhere, and the botanist may recount concerning her, that she has an assigned duty which no other flower could fulfil. One day comprises her short life; but in that one day no work which she has to do is left undone, and wonderfully is she constructed for the doing of that work. Her trumpet-shaped corollas, tiny though they be when compared with the large dazzling white flowers of her relative-the favourite of St. Pierre, are designed to reflect the rays of the sun, and, like highly polished mirrors directed to one focus, convey as much heat as possible to the interior. Those who are interested in the admirable arrangement of the vegetable world, may discern by this simple token that the small convolvulus is designed to grow in open and wind-haunted places, or beneath the shade of taller vegetable forms. She is endowed also with an instinctive motion, by which she is enabled to rise from her humble or thickly tangled place of growth, by twining around the stems of neighbouring plants; and in thus effecting her exit, her spiral stems turn uniformly from west to southwest; others, on the contrary, perform the same movement from east to west. Such natural indications prove unerring guides to travellers when journeying through pathless solitudes. A matin flower is this same wild convolvulusdisplaying her small trumpet when the sun arises, and putting it aside as no longer needful when evening draws in: hinting-it may be in unison with many a wayside weed that open and close their petals at stated seasons, with the matin and even-songs of grateful birds-concerning duties which some unhappily forget, and others but carelessly fulfil. A hospitable flower, too, is she, and winged insects are her guests: a loving plant, methinks, for I have seen her in company with her meek sisters, mantling the graves of lowly ones yet not in a village churchyard, where the pure air of sheaven comes and goes, and bright sun beams gladden the lone spot, but in a burying "There is a flower, a purple flower, Sown by the wind, nursed by the shower, This beauteous flower was named Cyanus after a youthful devotee of Flora, who made garlands for public festivities with different kinds of wild flowers, and who often lingered from morning till evening among the corn, weaving such as she collected, and singing the sweetest strains of her father-land. 213 What an exquisite coronet of sky-blue florets is. conspicuous in the cyanus! every floret is a fairy vase, that holds forth a rich nectarious juice to thirsty insects. And when each vase, having fulfilled its appointed purpose, is laid aside, beautiful green cradles become developed, as if by enchantment, containing little winged children, which the zephyrs delight to rock! These winged children are often peculiarly beautiful: their small pinions are elegantly variegated at the base, and adorned with the most delicate jet black feathers, which to the unassisted eye appear only like minute hairs, and yet are perfect feathers of the most exquisite de scription. They presently fly abroad, bearing with them seeds of equal rarity, with one minute me tarde," which signifies, "I long, or wish argroove fitted to another, and having a finished and elaborate mechanism whereby to facilitate the purpose for which they are designed. dently," and which, doubtless, had reference to some desire either of or Elizabeth Rowe loved the cyanus: that gifted Woman who sought for it in her girlhood days, and obtained from the expressed juice a lasting transparent colour, little inferior to ultramarine, wherewith to paint some of her choicest flowers. And truly, as wrote the elegant author of The Philosophy of Nature, there was scarcely a flower, or an insect, or a bird, that grew, or crept, or sung, in her garden, but yielded a source of pleasure. And so it will ever be if our minds are attuned aright, and we regard the universe as the temple of Him who fills all space, in which, as from one great altar, the incense of thanksgiving continually ascends. townsmen. However this might be, the arus anon motto being sculptured over the principal gate, the middle word became effaced by some accident, and the merchant dealers in common sinapis seed, intending to adorn their mustard-pots with labels of the city arms, copied the imperfect motto as it then remained, "Moult tarde," and hence the name of sinapis was changed into that of mustard. which it retains to the present day. Surely one might linger the whole day in a cornfield thus varied with flowers of all hues, from the bright corn marigold, or yellow ox-eye, to the pale tinted heart's-ease. "Mannour-courts do amerse careless tenants who do not weed out the former of these plants before it comes to seed," said good Master Threlkeld in the book which he compiled, "concerning things fitting to be known nearly two hundred years since." Wherefore? Because the yellow ox-eye (chrysanthemum segetum) is extremely troublesome in the places of its sojourn, and difficult to eradicate. The farmer looks with a dissatisfied scowl over his field wherein this brilliant plant has fixed its abode. Not so the naturalist, and the lover of scenery; nor yet the moralist: the one acknowledges in his favourite corn-marigold a memorial plant, whose yellow flowers, following the sun with untiring diligence, teach him to look upwards with the eye of faith; the other, in the brilliancy which is imparted to fields in tillage, the effect that is frequently produced, by means apparently inadequate; while the naturalist recognises a peculiarity of construction, which enables the marigold equally to sustain the heat of the summer solstice, and the chill night winds of the waning year. Saw you never, in cloudy and windy weather, with intervals of scorching sunbeams, when grain of every description ripens fast, some field on the slope of a hill side of the most brilliant hue, as if the sun shone there exclusively-a lovely object amid the duskiness of other fields, darkened with cloud shadows? That effect is produced by innumerable marigolds suffered to remain unmolested, or which have sprung up among the tender wheat, and from whence they could hardly be withdrawn. The common mustard (sinapis nigra) also occasionally imparts somewhat of a similar appearance, being at least a foot and a half in height, and lifting its pale yellow petals to the full influence of air and light. It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to observe, that the seeds, reduced to powder, make the common mustard; that they yield a considerable quantity of expressed oil, which partakes but little of the acrimony of the plant; and lastly, that cataplasms, formed with crumbs of bread, vinegar, and powdered mustardseed, are commonly applied as stimulants when required. All this is, perhaps, well known, but not the whimsical history attached to the name of this useful plant, which is as follows:-Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who lived towards the end of the fourteenth century, granted the town of Dijon armorial ensigns, with the motto, "Moult AW YELLOW GOAT'S-BEARD, SCARLET PIMPERNEL. from two Greek words, a goat and a beard, which pratensis, its specific name, is abundant in corn-2 2V9 "Oh surely 'tis a bliss to lay one down 13113 Smell sweetly, and the meads in blooming prime, avs 22.63 The remarkable property which is inherent ind the yellow and purple goat's-beard, in the corno sow-thistle, mouse-ear, hawk-weed, and scarlet pimpernel, with other solar flowers, of thus unsa folding their petals at an allotted time, and of closing them again, and that most frequently before the sun declines from the meridian, must be ascribed to an admirable arrangement of spiral fibres. Linnæus noticed this wonderful effect when in search of plants among the solitudes of Lapland, and he gave to all such flowers the appellation of solares; but it remained for modern botanists, among whom the name of Ibbitson is conspicuous, to ascertain the cause for such an extraordinary deviation from the laws of nature. Spiral fibres must, therefore, be briefly noticed, that our young friends may examine the subject for themselves when they go forth into the fields during this pleasant month, and observe that while some flowers spread abroad their petals at noonday, others are beginning to enfold them. These fibres appear like fine cork-screw threads of a firmer texture than the adjacent parts, and are readily distinguished by carefully drawing asunder either a stem or leaf-stalk. In some small specimens, such as the pimpernel, they are scarcely perceptible; in larger species they present an elegantly formed spiral, but in both they become firm and rigid when no longer required. By their ministry all the operations of vegetable life that bear expressly on motion are produced; flowers open in the morning, and close at night; leaves turn to the air and light, and a most beautiful effect is occasioned by the quivering of foliage in the wind: creeping plants also twine in their respective order, some, as already noticed, towards the west, others eastward. Heat and a strong light, in the first and second instance, produce a contraction of the spiral wires, and the slightest diminution of either, though unperceived by a looker-on, causes them to contract. Their form and position is likewise all important with regard to such flowers as remain expanded till eventide; by their agency the petals either shut or unfoldas in mechanics, the same spring may be made to turn to the right or left, in order to open or close a box. The sweet and nutritious roots of the yellow goat's-beard, if cut before the stems rise up, and boiled like asparagus, have nearly the same flavour: while those of the strong scented lettuce (lactuca virosa), which often grows beside it, yields an acrid and bitter juice that resembles opium, and possesses its narcotic qualities. An ancient poet, therefore, fabled that Venus, when inconsolable for the loss of Adonis, threw herself on a bed of wild lettuces growing among classic shades, in the hope of obtaining sleep. The milky juice, when exuding in hot weather through the pores of the stem and leaves, is sufficiently tenacious to detain ants, and other small insects; and even in cloudy weather it is so exuberant as to ooze forth upon the touch of their light feet. Withering conjectures that its narcotic quality may sensibly affect the little wanderers, and incline them to sleep. One species, however, derives both food and shelter from the strong scented lettuce; this is the tiny Livia lactuce, which journeys in and out unharmed either by the trap-like juice, or the overpowering scent. Thus admirably are all created beings adapted for the places to which they are assigned; but why so great a difference should be discoverable between two neighbour plants, rooted in the same soil, shone upon by the same warm sunbeams, and fertilized by the same showers, is a problem that none may solve. These effects can alone be referred to the agency of a vital principle, though this all-pervading agency cannot explain them to our understanding; they are necessarily the result of chemical depositions and combinations, but we know not what these depositions and combinations are, nor yet the exciting causes, nor the laws that produce and regulate them. The root of the goat's-beard, in which the nutritious qualities are especially developed, is well deserving of brief notice. It is formed on the principle of a wedge, and penetrates readily into the earth; that of the wild lettuce, though somewhat similar, is also fibrous; each has an especial reference to the habits of the respective plant, and each have within them strongly coated vessels, by which they derive moisture from the earth. The opening and closing of all flowers is consequently owing to internal mechanism of the most exquisite description, varying in different species, and, perhaps, somewhat more complex in such as the yellow goat's-beard, and strong scented lettuce, time-pieces of Nature's making-which the weary ploughman often leaves his horses to look upon, and harvest men love to sit beside when they rest from their work at noon. Linnæus formed from such flowers an Horolo gium Flora, or botanical clock. We recommend our young friends to occupy some of their leisure hours in the same way; taking note of different species which open at fixed times, and sketching them from nature; they will find, most probably, sufficient for their purpose on the borders of cornfields, and sunny banks. Thus beautifully has Mrs. Hemans referred to the botanical clock, above mentioned, and which is pleasingly associ ated with the memory of the Swedish naturalist: Very dissimilar from that of the goat's-beard, is the fibrous root of the elegantly formed and slender agrimonia eupatoria, or common agrimony, generally found in corn-fields, and producing a graceful effect with its long terminating bunc es of fine yellow flowers. This plant has also a specific use; the Canadians find an infusion of the leaves and flowers invaluable in burning fevers; it is kewise noticed as a specific for the jaundice. The blad der campion, or spatling poppy (silene inflata), is associated neither with historic nor traditional remembrances, and yet among such flowers as diversify a corn-field, what plant more singular in its construction or more deserving of close inspec tion! The calyx is purely white, and tastefully variegated with green or purple veins, inflated also like a gourd, and forming the most lovely clusters. Its relative, the Nottingham catch-fly (Silene nutens), on the contrary, recalls to mind many particulars of considerable interest. The generic name is given with reference to Nottingham, that neighbourhood being the first, and for many years the only place in Great Britain where it was found; and the plant itself ranks foremost in local interest, not only on account of its beauty and sweet evening scent, but for a singular viscid juice which enwraps the stalk, and often imprisons small wandering insects. fulgens corymbiflora, &c., which should be kept in a window), go to rest naturally at this season of the year, and may be protected in the open ground by coverings of ashes, mats, sawdust, anything, in short, that will preserve their roots from frost. But as the stems and branches will, in all probability, be killed, the plants of next year will be merely a cluster of suckers sent up by the root. So all standard or other fuchsias, the stems and branches of which you wish to preserve, should be taken up, the soil shaken from their roots, the plants laid together in a dry frost-proof outhouse or cellar, and their roots covered with dry sand until the beginning of April, when you may plant them out again. Fuchsias, trained to walls, may be preserved by their roots being well covered with ashes, and their stems and branches by mats nailed to the wall. If this plan is inconvenient, the plant may be taken up, and the laterals or side-shoots trimmed off as you would a walking-stick, leaving from three to six stems, about five or six feet long. Having prepared a pit, in dry soil or sand, three feet deep and as long as required, bury your fuchsias with a little straw about them, and fill up the pit, leaving the surface in a sharp ridge so as to throw off the water. About the end of April dig them up, you will find them growing vigorously, plant and train to the wall as before. The original discoverer of this rare plant was T. Willisel, one of the earliest and most industrious votaries of botanic science. Ray subsequently noticed it, when he explored the neighbourhood of Wollaton, nearly two hundred years since, in company with his amiable friend and patron Willoughby. The walls and rocks of Nottingham Castle were beautifully mantled with the delicate flowers of the catch-fly when the two friends visited them; and since then the cliffs at Sneinton Hermitage, about a mile eastward of Nottingham Castle, are noticed as a second place of growth; such also is the case at the present day, with the addition of various huge masses of stone and excavations, in Nottingham Park. The dowers begin to open in the second week of May, punctually as when first observed by Willisel, and continue for the space of six weeks, expanding most fully towards eventide, at which time the petals bend slightly downward, like those of the cyclamen. Along the margin of fields also, and wander-be ing some little way among the corn, grow many gently-breathing plants," with which grave herbalists and housewives cured in old times the ailments of their neighbours-memorial flowers alse, by which old simplers commemorated worth or friendship, or neighbouring villagers associated the memory of benefactors, whose skill or kindness might be shadowed forth in the virtues of their favourite plants-such are sweet Marjorams, Cicelies, and Williams; herbs Robert, Paris, Bennet, Christopher, and Gerard, Timothy Grass, and wild Basil, with good king Henry, a small unobtrusive flower, which aptly symbolizes the meekest and most unfortunate of England's kings. The benefactors are long since departed; the simplers and grateful villagers are gone; the memory of their loves and friendships, of their gentle virtues, who they were, and why such names were given, are mostly past; but the botanist likes to look on these memorial plants; and even the village matron, when she names or gathers them, associates, though she cannot tell you why, a feeling with those flowers, which no other in the field or hedge row can elicit. GARDENING-OCTOBER. FLOWERS-By the time this paper reaches the hands of my readers, preparations should be made for wintering the half hardy plants, which, after gladdening the borders in the summer months, require and deserve protection during winter. Fuchsias (excepting the broad-leaved kinds, as Scarlet Geraniums only require to be kept cool, just free from frost, and dry. About ten days before taking up the plants, all the large leaves, and any young watery shoots apparently too soft to last the winter should be carefully cut off. When the plants are taken up, every leaf should stripped off, and the plants may be hung up by the roots in a dry, dark cellar, or covered with dry hay, and put away in a box in any garret, lumberroom, or hayloft, that is cool, dry, and frost-proof. A plan of wintering these plants, when grown in large pots and boxes, recommended by the best authority, and which I have proved, is to cut off every leaf before the plants are touched by frost, and to keep them all winter in a dry, cool room, without giving one drop of water. In March, put them out on fine sunny days, bringing them in at night, still keeping them dry until the young leaves appear, when you may commence to give water. By this method the plants do not require repotting for several years. Not only the whole plant, but cuttings of this semi-succulent kind of geranium may be kept dry all winter. cuttings now from six inches to a foot in length, keep them in a cool airy room for about a month, till they are quite dry, then wrap them up separately in paper, or put them away in a drawer or dry cupboard. About midwinter examine them, and if any black spots, or gangrenous decay, appear at the end of the cuttings, cut it out. In March you may pot them, give water, and keep in a warm room; they will soon form roots, and be ready for turning out into the open ground by May. Take Scarlet (Mexican) Salvias should be cut down before frost, and the roots, with the soil adhering to them, lifted, and kept during winter in dry sand, in any place free from damp and frost; in April the roots will begin to grow, and then they may be divided and planted out again. The blue salvia (salvia patens) having roots containing eyes, similar to those of the dahlia, may be treated in the same manner as that plant, lift the roots, keep them dry, and plant; cut in spring. Calceolarias, |