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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Pease, sow some early white Warwicks.
Sow cucumber seed in puts, and place them in a temporary
hot-bed, prepare other beds for the re.reption of the plants.
The open weather keeps everything in a growing
is easier cut by the frost. Keep a sharp look out for all those
that require protection. gtate. and it
Kitchen gardens generally as last week, unless frost interfere,
which stop most of the operations.
Greenhouse and conservatory management continues the
same, but care most be taken to guard against frost, though
fires are nut advisable even if nights of no frost occurs. Watch-
ing is necessary.
Stove, the same as last Aek.
Bring, in successions of flowers for forcing, American plants,
hyacinths, pinks, &c. • •
Orchidious plants should be by no means kept growing hard
they require rest like other plauts.—Gardeners' Gazette.

Atm AT THE ATTAINMENT OF CLEAR AND !ACCURATE
EIABITS OF TfrouGnT.—Thinking is the exerciie width strength-
ens the mind, and without which .tio prooress can be made in
mental cultivation. A man may read, and hear, and talk—he
may devour volumes, and listen to lectures every night —and
vet, if he does not think, he will make after all but little, if
any, improvement. His head will be full of something ; but it
lvili be a crowd of lumber, like the articles in a broker's shop.
tie must think; he mast turn over subjects in his mind:l he
must look' at them on every side: lie must trace the connexion
between ideas, and haVe every thing orderly arranged. A non
may even think a great dial, and nut think cleat ly : his mind
may be at work, and yrt alOsays in confusion : there may be no'
clear arrangement; and it is quite possible to mistake muddi-
ness for depth. There are some men who appear very thought-
ful; but from never aiming at accurate habits of thought, tney.
talk most unintelligibly. There seens to be neither beginning,
nor middle, nor end, in what they say ; all is a confused jun:-
ble. Now, writing carefully is a wood plan f'r acquiring habits
of clear and connected thought, since a man is more likely to
detect the disorder of his thoughts in writing than in talking..—
. Rev. J. Suughion's Address.

HEMS EKS ON THE POETIC GENIUS oFNs.—The poetic
genii's of Burns, nourished on scanty learning, and inspired by
nature herself, will furnish a text for the philosopher, who spe-
culates on the influence of hook-acquired learning on g:fteil
mind, of the first order. NI limn, on the one hand. stands Ho
example of the poetic benefits of much learning ; whilst Shaks-
. Ptate and Burns confiont and refute the as,,tioti, that .sit.
little learning is a dangerous thinat." That into la learning is
covetable by a pilot, has long ceased to he my opinion. In the
hare toil of :requiting it, his mind exudes much of its natural
strength and sensitaility ; but that souse learning is useful, has.
been illustrated by Shaksneare, whose mind—an alembic of
sweets—distilled more of the essential odours of classic mytho-
logy, and noire of the beautiful in classical history, than the
minds of a thousand pedants count have collected Burns.
plreni IV still less learned than Shakspeare never looked bas ~
to uneeStral inspiration; hut was him,elf an ancester in poetry.
I cannot give up my classical partialities, but I confess the ttulh
of Burns's words, when he derides those "who think to climb
Parnassus hill by dint of Greek;" and his strokes of nature
bring down my conception of the quantum of learning, that is
needful fur a genuine poet. to the lowest point. I could point
oat in Burns's stings, thoughts exactly similar to those of beau-
tiful Greek epigrams. of which Burris could have never heard.
Ilere Burns wrote Greek poetry without ha%ing learnt the very
characters. When nature takes genius by the hand, she always
cum lusts her pupil to the tender sod beautiful, and by a shorter
toad than the learned languages. If 1 had found Burns at a
Greek grammar, I Should have pulled him away from it. Selden
one of the greatest of scholars, could afford to say that no man
is ever wiser far his learning. This is untrue in a strict sense,
but it is true in a more general view, for we know that the na-
tural weakness of the mind is only tnade more rickety by a load
of learning. The best of Burns's penis, in toy opinion, is his
"Tam o'Shanter." It was sail of the most perfect Greek
scutptutes, that they seemed to be rather melted than ch.selled
marble. In like manner, this poem always appears to Inc as if
the poet had not written lint improvised is; as it he had tuever
blotted aline nr clipped off a fragment of its language; but had
cast it off tin,remeditated trona the glowing mould of his imagi-
nation.—The Scenic Annual.

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