GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR LADIES.
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We would wish every lady who lives in the country, not only to be fond of botany, {" collect specimens, dry them between plotting paper compressed with a bag of hot sand, and then gum them into leger indexed according to the natural system i; but we would wish them to devote por- ton of every day, in favorable weather in the open air, and in unfavorable weather under veranda or in green house, tO some ofthe lighter operations of gardening, for health's sake, and as a means of adding zest to their ordinary in-door enjoyments. Cutting out weeds with light spade, which does not require stooping stirring the sur- face of the earth with light two-pronged spud, the prongs of which need not be much larger than those of a carving fork, and the handle of willow or poplar, or cane not thicker than fishing rod and prun- ing, with the sliding shears, shrubs from three to seven feet high, are operations which do not require stopping, and which may be performed during the hottest wealth. CT, by the use of broad brimmed straw hat, or other light, broad brimmed hat of any sort. Thinning out and tying up her. baceous plants and low shrubs /; tying up climbers and twiners, and tying the shoots of trained trees to tellses or to nails with eyes, fixed in walls cutting off decayed flowers, fower-stems, withered roses, and dead points of shoots and leaves-and pruning shrubs under three feet high, which require stepping. are fit operations for mornings and evenings, and for cloudy weather. Watering is best performed in the evening and # any lady wishes to do this in masterly manner, she ought to have one of the rotary garden engines, 6t- ted up with wheel and handles like a wheelbarrow : this she may wheel along the walks and, by an operation not too se- were for healthy young woman, and which would add greatly to the strength of her constitution and the tranquility of her nights, throw the water from thirty to for ty feet in every direction. We would common to all countries, than see them shifting and otherwise working with sickly hot-house plants in pots, which cannot be done well without more or less affe citing the hands. The care and watering ofneat little alpine plants in pots, is what most la dies are very fond of; and one of the prin- cipal enjoyments of city ladies, who know plants only or chiefly as pictures, consists in performing this operation. The plants to be presented to such amateurs ought to be plants that require water at least once in day, and that grow fast to require tying up, and make frequent dead leaves to re- qnire picking and dressing. The princi- pie is, something to be taken care of, and to care for and depend on us; something that requires labor, the beginning and end of all improvement and enjoyment.

 London Magasine.