of stairs, or enters a wrong door, or mistakes her seat at table.

Among her various excellences, neatness, and love of order are conspicuous. Her simple wardrobe is systematically arranged, and it is impossible to displace a single article in her drawers, without her perceiving and restoring it. If any part of her dress requires mending, she is prompt and skilful in repairing it, and her perseverance in this branch of economy greatly diminishes the expense of her clothing.

Julia Brace leads a life of perfect contentment, and is, in this respect, both an example and reproof to those, who, for trifling inconveniences, indulge in repining, though surrounded by all the gifts of nature and of fortune. The genial influences of spring wake her lone heart to gladness, and she gathers the first flowers, and even the young blades of grass, and inhales their freshness with a delight bordering on transport.

Should any of you, my young friends, visit, at any future time, the Asylum at Hartford, and be induced to inquire for the deaf, dumb and blind girl, you would probably find her seated with her knitting, or needle-work, in a dress, neat, and in its plainness conformable to the humility of her circumstances. Many strangers have waited for a long time to see her thread her needle, which is quite a mysterious process, and never accomplished without the aid of the tongue.

"It will be difficult for you, my dear children, to gain a correct idea of a person perfectly blind, deaf, and dumb, even after repeatedly beholding her. Cover your eyes for a short time, and you shut out this world of beauty. Close your ears and you exclude this world of sound. Refrain from speaking, and you cease to hold communion with the world of intelligence. Yet, were it in your power to continue thus for hours, even for days,

you still have within your minds, a treasury of knowledge, to which she can never resort.

You cannot picture to yourselves, the uiter desolation of one, whose limited acquirements are made at the expense of such toil, and with the hazard of such continual error. Never, therefore, forget to be grateful for the talents with which you are endowed. For every new idea, which you add to the mental store-house, praise Him, who gives you with unveiled senses, to taste the luxury of knowledge.

When the smile of your parents and companions makes your heart glad, or when you look at the bright flowers and fair skies of summer, think with compassion of her, who must never see the face of her fellow creatures, nor the beauty of earth and sky.

When you hear the melody of music, or the kind voice of your teachers, oh! strive to value and improve your privileges; and while you pour forth all the emotions of your souls in the varieties of language, forget not a prayer of pity for her, who dwells in perpetual silence, a prayer of gratitude to Him who hath caused you to differ from her.

LESSON 32.

To the Fringed Gentian.

Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew,
And colored with the heaven's own blue !
That openest when the quiet light
Succeeds the keen and frosty night.

Thou comest not when violets lean

O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen,
Or columbines, in purple drest,

Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.

Thou waitest late, and com'st alone,
When woods are bare and birds are flown,
And frost and shortening days portend
The aged year is near its end.

Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye,
Look through its fringes to the sky,
Blue-blue-as if that sky let fall
A flower from its cerulean wall.

I would that thus, when I shall see
The hour of death draw near to me,
Hope blossoming within my heart,
May look to heaven as I depart.

In Dr. Bigelow's Plants of Boston and its vicinity, three sorts or species of Gentian are described; Soapwort Gentian, Marsh Gentian, and the Fringed Gentian, (Gentiana crinita.) The fringed gentian, he says, is exceeded by few native plants in the delicacy and beauty of its flowers. The stems are divided towards the top into several erect branches. The leaves are opposite, and shaped like a spear. The flowers are erect, on the ends of the branches, remote from the leaves; they are of a deep fine blue, or purple, fringed at the end, expanded in the sun, and, at other times, upright and twisted. It may be found in blow in the months of September and October.

Ginseng is a different plant, the root of which is in high estimation among the Chinese.

LESSON 33.

Harry and Lucy in Mrs. Frankland's Garden.

"Lucy, you have not seen our garden yet," said Mrs. Frankland. "We had not time yesterday, but if you are fond of a garden, come with us now, your mother and I are going there."

"Oh! thank you ma'am," said Lucy; "but I must call Harry, and we will follow you directly." They followed, and a gay garden it was, full of a variety of bright colored flowers, rich beds of carnation, and roses in full blow.

Roses, moss roses, in full blow in September;" cried Lucy. The day before she had left home, she had searched their garden for a rose for her mother, but could find only one solitary bud, which had a yellow nightcap on. She asked Mrs. Frankland to tell her how she contrived to make her roses blow so late in autumn.

"By pulling off some of the buds in spring," said Mrs. Frankland, "as soon as they begin to form; and by transplanting some of the rose-trees early in the spring, so as to prevent them from flowering at that time, then they blow in autumn." Lucy said she would try this next spring on her

own two rose trees.

"Not on both, will you ?" said Harry, "Let us pull the buds off one, and leave them on the other, then it will be a fair experiment."

"And besides, you may then have a chance," said Mrs. Frankland, "of the first rose of spring, as well as the last rose of summer."

Lucy took notice of some large clusters of bright blue flowers; she thought them beautiful, but she supposed that these could not be had without a great deal of trouble and money, and a hot-house or a gardener at least. But Mrs. Frankland said these (agapanthus and dahlia) did not require a

hot-house, or even a gardener's skill. "Indeed," said she, "all the flowers in this garden, excepting a few, may be had by `any body with a little care and exertion of their own."

"By any body!" repeated Lucy. "But do you mean bodies like us? like Harry and me? with only our own hands ?"

C Yes, bodies like you," said Mrs. Frankland, "with your own hands, provided you use your heads as well as your hands."

"In what way must we use our heads?" said Lucy; "will it be very difficult ?"

"No, consult some book on gardening, and follow its directions. Only remember to do so at the right time of the year," said Mrs. Frankland. She told Lucy that she and Harry were welcome to seeds, roots, cuttings or slippings of anything they liked in this garden. "Write down what you wish, and I will have them ready by the time your mother brings you here again, as I hope she will on your return homewards."

Joy_sparkled in their eyes, and they thanked Mrs. Frankland, with warm gratitude; but an instant afterwards, they looked unusually grave; for the embarrassment of riches came upon them. They were left to make out the list; and how to choose was the difficulty, where all were beautiful, and when their little garden would not hold all.

Harry went to work prudently. He measured out a space of ground, that was the size of their own garden. Lucy could hardly believe it was so small as what he now showed her; but he had often stepped the boundaries, and was sure of the size of their territories. Rule and measure soon settled the affair, and brought their wishes into proper compass. They calculated what their garden would hold, and made out their list accordingly. Their chief wish was to have a great bed of pinks and carnations.