which she discovered them. Here, in a short time, they spun for themselves the cone which served for their winter quarters. When it was near the time when she supposed they would leave their cones, Sophia removed them to another box, which was covered with a thin lace at the top, through which she could see what was going on within. On visiting her box this morning, to her great delight she discovered three butterflies, of the largest size and most brilliant colors. The children were much pleased with looking at them; but the butterflies began to feel their new life, and fluttered about as if they wanted more room. The box was accordingly carried out to the piazza, and the lace removed. The brilliant insects remained for a few moments, opening and shutting their wings, as if to make sure that they knew how to use them, and then they soared away into the air, and the children soon lost sight of them. Sophia thought their splendid appearance fully repaid her for the trouble she had taken in preserving the potato-worms.

George told her that her butterflies reminded him of some pretty lines he had seen lately, which he should like to read. He was desired to do so, and read

"THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT.

"Thou hast burst from thy prison,

Bright child of the air,

Like a spirit just risen

From its mansion of care.

"Thou art joyously winging
Thy first ardent flight
Where the gay lark is singing
Her notes of delight, —

"Where the sunbeams are throwing
Their glories on thine,
Till thy colors are glowing
With tints more divine;

"Then tasting new pleasure
In summer's green bowers,
Reposing at leisure

On fresh-opened flowers;

"Or delighted to hover

Around them to see

Whose charms, airy rover,

Bloom sweetest for thee,

"And fondly inhaling

Their fragrance, till day
From thy bright eye is failing

And fading away.

"Then, seeking some blossom
Which looks to the west,

Thou dost find in its bosom

Sweet shelter and rest;

"And there dost betake thee
Till darkness is o'er,

And the sunbeams awake thee
To pleasure once more."

The girls thanked George for the lines, and Sophia requested a copy for her scrap-book, which George not only promised her, but agreed to make the copy for her in his own neatest hand.

Dr. Solander now came in, and invited them all to walk. He told them that the field-flowers were not as beautiful as those which bloom earlier in the summer, but he thought they might find some that were pretty. They would have the walk, at any rate, and could return by way of his grounds, where his gardener would be very happy to make up any deficiencies that might be found. John had been lamenting to him, that it was at least three days since the young ladies had been over to look at his flowers, and he depended

on making up a nice bouquet for an Independence present to them.

The walk proved very agreeable. They found a number of flowers in the woods, though hardly any of the more delicate and tender kind. They gathered some of the Spirea Alba, meadow-sweet, (class 12th, order 4th,) and another of the same family, commonly called the hardhack. They gave a delicious odor to their bouquets by adding to them sprigs of the sweet-brier leaves, the Rosa Rubiginosa, (class 12th, order 5th.) They found in abundance the flowering raspberry, Rubus Odoratus, (class 12th, order 5th.) They were far enough from the sea-shore to be able to find the splendid mountain laurel, Kalmia Latifolia, (class 10th, order 1st.) The hedges of this beautiful plant make the most brilliant appearance at the season when it is in flower. They passed a pond, on the surface of which floated the graceful water-lily, Nymphæa Odorata, (class 13th, order 1st.) The boys, with some difficulty, succeeded in getting a few specimens of this beautiful and fragrant flower, from whose large root, firmly placed at the bottom of the pond, springs up the long stalk which carries nourishment to the flower and the

large, round leaves, which float on the surface of the water, and enjoy the rays of the sun. Of these and many others they formed very pretty bouquets, and returned home, as had been arranged, through the doctor's grounds. John was awaiting them with the largest and most tastefully arranged bouquet of gardenflowers which was ever seen. He wondered a little that they would take the trouble to go so far after what he considered no better than weeds, when the garden at home was in such glory. He had for each of the girls a flower of the fragrant magnolia, Magnolia Glauca, (class 13th, order 6th,) gathered from a shrub which had been transplanted from a distant part of the state, and flourished in Dr. Solander's garden. The very powerful and delicious odor of this flower was highly praised; and, wishing John a good night, the young party returned home, Frank bearing in triumph the enormous bouquet, and the rest of the party well satisfied with the success of their botanical researches.