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to support such publications, is the fosierin,

patron to

which he owes his difficulties. Thus does America nip
her young genius in the bud ; and when it perchance comes
to flower and fruit, she is not behind-hand with a blight.
The unknown production of the American author is
brought into a depressing competition with works which
have been tried in England, and found certain of success
in America

The popular British author, whom the
public have long demanded, is furnished at the lowest
price—while the yet unheard-of native aspirant, who can
only hope for a limited patronage, and cannot dispense
with his copyright, must of course be paid more. Whilst
all the poems of Mr. Tennyson, or his bet
had for a dollar, the maiden effort of an An

cannot be furnished for much less. Of course. his
country has crushed hei' child, under the weight of an
unnatural disadvantage; and in proportion as he is worth
anything, the chances are less that he will persevere
against such odds. I know of a man of sterling genius,
whose early writings attracted the notice of Maga, who

quenceof the evils I now depict. His country may
thank herself that he has not taken rank with the first
English authors of his class. But the same system which

relieves them, by putting foreign works on a level with
theirs as to chance of success, England gives them no
copyright, and they cannot get aid from her as heretofore.
Cooper and Irving were encouraged by England under a
different state of things ; and it is safe to say, that under
present circumstances there will be no mbre Irvings
Coopers. lam surprised that American scholars su

with such equanimity to grievances under which genius
must languish and emulation dies.—Blackwood.

WINDOW GARDENING.— Another point respecting
which plants suddenly transplanted to a room receive a
check, is the difficulty of supplying them with sufficient
light. While they were kept in pits, in the nurseryman's
care, they must necessarily have been placed close to the
glass, and thus had the surface of their leaves fully exposed
to the light, which was necessary to stimulate them to
perform their proper functions. In a room, on the con-
trary, they receive only a side light ; and the leaves being
forced to turn themselves, so that the light may fall upon
their upper surface, the plant either grows opt of shape,

or the leaves take a very odd and twisted- appearance.
This is another of those evils attending window gardening
which it is extremely difficult to guard g.gainst ; and, in
fact, as long as the plants are kept inside a room, so as to
have only a side light, it is almost impossible that the
colours of their flowers should be as vivid, and the shape
of their plants should be as good, as when they are grown
in a green-house. Something may, however, be done in
choosing a favourable situation, even when plants can
have only a side light ; and windows having a south or
south-east exposure are the best, as they not only have
the light longer every day, but it is also more intense, and
the plants have the advantage of enjoying the warmth of
the sun—an advantage the want of which cannot be sup-
plied to them by any artificial means. It has been said
that flowers never attain their proper colour unless they
can enjoy the light of the sun for five or six hours every
fine day; and that, in proportion as the quantity of sun-
light they receive is diminished, the plants lose their
vigour, and the flowers their brilliancy. The light of
the sun being of so much importance to the health of
plants, it is evident that window gardening is more likely
to be successful in the upper part of a house than in the
lower part ; and that plants are more likely to be grown
successfully in an attic than on the ground floor, unless
the street in which the house is situated happens to be
very wide. In the business part of Paris, it is by no
means uncommon to see a complete garden of plants, in
pots or tubs, on the leaden roof of a house, particularly
collections of carnations, ranunculuses, and tulips ; and
some years ago, in one of the closest streets of Paris, there
was a garden of fruit trees cultivated with complete suc-
cess on the leads of a house—one cherry tree in particular
producing every year seven or eight pounds of fine
cherries, and an apple tree a large crop of apples. In
some parts of London, small gardens of plants, in pots,
are kept on the leads ; and some years ago, there was a
garden of this kind kept on the leads of a house in St.
Paul's Churchyard by Miss Kent, author of the Flora
Domestica, and other works.—Miss Loudon in the Peo-
ple's Journal.