New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-13

Tho fortunate persons who were out to enjoy te
sunshine yesterday will unto to pronounce IL one
of the most de ghtful days of all the year we are
led to hope however, that it was not fragment OF
Indian Summer and that those mellow days are sun
to come. In ordinary years the fragrant ar anu
violet haze Of that season are not grahIeu "
us until late November. and IN thls par
ticuar year, which has Jagged oehihu lne
calendar from early spring. 1t can hardly be possible
that Indian Summer will be precipitated upon Us
while tender roses are yet blooming in bleak
exposures. 1t is only after genuine foretaS'e
u winter that these belated summer Gays
settle down upon Us to break up 'ne
continuity OF freezing weather. ana
may be winter by the almanac when we ENJOY
them. scptcmber was In the air yesterday-Or was
it sprng1 Vioets opening In the meadows
There are apple blossoms in the orchards and
promise of strawberries in the gardens. And IN the
Park the snowy flowers of the neat little Splr'ea
Thupburg are unfolding as trustfully as If 1t were
early May.
The painful aud dangerous accident 10
thu venerable Charles DOwning-to when
THE TRIBUNE recently made delayed reference
has called forth expressions of sincere regret ana
AectIon from persons in many parts of the country
who have something like just appreciation OF what
all lovers of fruit owe our leading pomologist; VINO
have learned 10 honor his unselilsh devotion 10 ah
important speciality and to love the man Tor MS
noble traits of character and his quiet unDreten-
tious manner of life. Always In feeble health ahu
often familiar with sorrow. he has attained the
surprising age of eighty one years win meh'ai
faculties still unimpaired The far-reachlng ana
bcnefcent results of his umemitted industry tor
the pablo good during this long lifetime cannot be
measured; his great work on The Fruits ana
Fruit Trees of America" only shows 1t in some de-
gree but that volume will stand as an enduring
and most useful record OF n career which all nope
may still be continued to us-and which VIII De
aukfully and nspringly remembered long alter
even the at present more familiar names of many
self-assering men who in various ways have Sought
publicity las he did notD have passed out OF mind
Mr. John Burroughs 1t appears has offended our
English friends by limiting that the scenery OF
their little island is pretty rather than grand Ihey
are not satisfied to retOrt that American scenery 5
"unkemptn and arid !" and that Engl%ad has all
the varied chain of SEA and dale, abbey castle ana
moor but the Ihe Pal Mall Gazette goes further
and claims that 1t has all Of American vusnesS too
An American colonel are gravely assured
:" has decided that Snowden was wilder than any
thing east of the Rockies and the tweDtV-mue
nloin of Salisbury is to American
pralries and pronounced superior in vastness. Inc
Fnplshman who does not find sublimity enough in
Dartmoor to content him or the Thames sulicIentto
satisfy his needs as TO river is evidently SET down
ma ,mbecile or morally defective. The odd phase
of the matter is that our solid English knsmen SEQ
nothnp funny in their own shOrtness OF sight. Inc
world saws Amber sens old hen, "extends my chill
dreu quite to the end OF the next field. But do not
roam abroad Here in the barn-yard Is oil that you
can desire