Nutmegs

Nutmegs grow on trees which ]ook like pear trees, and are generally over I twenty feet high. The flowers are very much like the lily of the valley. They are pale yellow, and very fragrant. The uutmeg is the seod of the fruit, and mace is the thin covering over this seed. The fruit is about as large as a peach. When ripe, it breaks open and shows the little nut inside. The trees grow on the islands of Asia, and in tropical Araerica. They bear fruit for seventy or cighty years, having ripe fruit upon them at all seasons. A fine tree in Jamaica has over 4,000 nutmegs on it yearly. The Dutch used to have all the 'nutrneg trado, as they owned the Banda inlands, and conquered all the other traders, and destroyed the trees. To keep the price up, they once burned three piles of mitinegs, each of which was as larg0 as a church. Nature did not sympathize with such meanness. The nutmeg pigeon, found in all the Indian islands, did for the world what the Dutch had determined should not be done - carried these nuts, which are their food, into all the surrounding countries, and trees grew again, and the world lias the benefit. Sie T. Acland, a Scottish Mi P.. has had a teacher from the Ecftribiirgh School of Oookery visit his estáte and give practica] instruction, with deinonstratiDii lessons, to his tenante, using the appliancus in actual use in their cottages, wood fires, erocks, aud contracted stoves.