Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-20
Dailp 9latlonal Qcmutrat
The LOtos Eater.

;ne fine lines from Tennyson's poem of the
Iotos Eaters:-
..In the afternoon they came unto a land,
H. u,hich il seemed always afternoon,
Al ronnd the coast the languid air did swoon,
breathing like one that hath weary dream.
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land where all things always seemed the same;
And round about the keel, with faces pale,
The mild.eyed melancholy Lotoseaters came.
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,,hore Is s,peet music here that softer falls
trhan metals from blown roses on the grass,
nr nrnicht.dews on still waters between walls
0fshadowy granite, in cleaning pass
urs,c that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the
blissful skies
How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream
With halfshut eyes ever to seem
ISi,rg to sleep in halfdream
~, "'i innSd our hearts and spirits wholly
tro g. ~ Nj influence of mild eyed melancholy.
rostinp weary limbs at last on beds of asphodcl."
How dreamy anl exquisite!
N p, Willis is delighted with the statue Of
+be Lotos Eater, recently finished 10y Miss
Stebbins, the young American Sculptures,
who has herself eaten of the Lotos. N. p.
Willis has also done the same. lie writes
thus:
And now, as to the statue tself:-It is
fgure of two-thirds the size of life a nude
youth most eXquistely beautiful, who stands
ianinr against an olive-tree, holding in his
hand a branch of the lotos-pant from which
Le has tasted the fruit, of which the spell is
inst stealing over his senses His posture is
,ne of admirably conceive languor, the repose
and lstlessness of which are in the most
,,n,ural and faithful accordance with the pen
s;,e melancholy of the teetures-all eloquent
lv expressive of the dreamy forgetulness
that is most welcome to the heart, though
.till touched with Il shadow of regret. The
rrofouud meaning and wonderful beauty of
The face will doubtless be looked upon as
the poetry of the statue, but the conception
and creation of mavvellously perfect a
male figure by female genius without the
aid of maternity,) is its point of curious in
terost his has already inspired a poet,
who, in last weeks Albion, represents the
fair sculptress as rejecting her seXs ordinary
destiny, but as thus making, "On bended
knee" her compensatory VOW
"The unwed bride
Ofart divine I'll henceiorth be
And rear IA sp0tess family,
With all a mothers love and pride.
"My travail thus shall realize
Without pang, her chLStest joys
In snowy marble shall my boys
Beneath my fostering hands arise.
'4Sinee TO their frames may not give
The quickening pulses of my heart,
NV soul its graces shall import
And in their stainless bodies 1--we.
"Their snowy shapes, without defect,
Angelic beauty shall display;
Noinborn sin of mortalc clay
Shall enyous eve in them detect
And-as form embalmcd in song
Awahens to the music sweet,
Which ulcd it in its winding sheet
So did the maidcns touch, ere long,
Awake to lItc, with piouS art,
The graceful phantom here conEealed;
A Phoenix though in snow revealed,
Out Of the ashes fher heart.
think you will agree with me that the
copiu7 domc Of the "Lotos-eatcr--tAe pre-
seutmcut Of this beautiful statue Gj3 its Ies-
SON to the knowledge of our iclloW-country-
,nrn-forms an cqent of that most desirable
mixture, useful ness and beauty. Miss Ntel-
bins is to be thanked while We pay homage
10 her genius.
To PGoNorG FrprulW is FrrIr TGlE'.-
Every orchardist must have observed that
some fruit trees Of superior quality and of
3uxuriant growth, are yet slow in coming III
to hearing state. Thi= i, the case, especial
ly with The rear tree Let US says an asli-
cultural paper, note down some Of the meth
cps prol ased for remcdying this very onoyi
Ing evil
An abundant and rapid flow of sap tends
to the growth of new wool and leaves rath-
er than to the formation of fruit buds What
ever checks this flow, will excite the produc-
lion of new flower buds. For example, select
vigorous evergreen which has thus far
shown no cones, and transplant it, and next
year it will be covered with seed vessels. So
it is often with fruit trees. The check there
10y given 10y the growth Of roots and Nranch-
os cause the organzahle sap to accumulate
in the branches and directs it to the forma-
tion of fruit Hence it is. that formal root
pruning is sometimes practiced. Asths pro
cess is described in nearly all fruit manuals,
we will only remind the reader that it should
e practiced only in the seasons of fall and
winter
Ringing the branches is another method.
Ihls consists in taking out circular section
OF bark, about an inch wide, on several
branches of the tree. The effect of this is to
lItNcuJ lue return on NlduOIdltu sap llNli
the tops of the branches to the limbs and
roots below, and almost always produces the
formation of fruit buds This prac ice is not
to be generally commended; it robs the low
er portion of the tree of the proper food, and
renders the girdled branches useless after
wards.
lending the branches downward, is auoth-
er and better method. This impedes both
the ascent and descent Of the sap, and causes
the accumulation all along the branches in
the form of fruit-buds Who has not often
noticed that crooked apple-tree bears bet
ter than a perfectly straight one? And one
with flat, spreading top, better than pyr-
amdal onef Hence we see the wisdom of a
practice common among Lurserymen, of re-
moving the GENITAL branches of young apple
trees This bending down OF the branches
should be done in June or July, while the
shoots are most flexible
Training the branches to a wall or trcllis
Is another method The slight compression
ot the fgatures and the bending of the
branches, causes check of the flow of the
sap, and so induces fruitfulness.
ANOTHER RAILROAD PRoSECr.-W learn,
says the Alameda Herald, that efforts are be-
-hS made 20 construct railroad in this coun-
~ from Oakland, or some point in this vicini-
~ TO San Jose, 10y way of San Leandro,
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