316    THE WISCONSIN FARMER.
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strongest young shoots in each clump, for next partial civilization, to very
extraordinary



year's bearing.
  MELows.-Put broad chips under those rip-
ening and occasionally turn, so as to expose



all sides to the sun.
  SqUAsnEs.---Gather as they ripen, and be-
fore the frost spoils them.
  CUCECBs8s.-Save all you can for pickles.
The soldiers of the great Union armny will
need them if you don't.

      The Great Intutaotnal Exhibition.
                  NO. Xl.

           THE BRITISH COI.0oNIKi.

  Standing again under the great Eastern
Dome, and looking to the right as far north-
ward and then westward as the naked eye can
distinguish the armorial ensigns and the
more prominent objects displayed by the dif-
ferent nations, we are filled with amazement
at the number of provinces here gathered



home by the great parent Empire upon wshose



glories with ever kindling enthusiasm we
have already dwelt so long.
  Nothing is so well remembered as what we
learn in youth.  The newspapers, now and
then, and quite often, considering the import-
ance of the event, have heralded to the world
the accession of some new portion of the
globe brought under the sway of the royal
seeptre of "the little sea-girt isle," and we
have once and again admired the indomitable
energy and unquenchable ambition of this
leader of Anglo-Saxon destiny; but other
events of still greater importance to us as a
yet more composite and more wonderful
race of new people have so engrossed us that
those occasions have not all been numbered
and recorded in the memory. We have lived
a quarter of a century-some of us twice
that-since on our maps of the wvorld we
traced the British Islands and their depend-
encies, at the country school, and until oui
eyes here corrected us, we have preserved the
outlines of her empire just as they were then
forgetting that the geography of great nationt
is exceedingly liable, in these times of bul



,rowth s.
Well, we shall not forget it hereafter, for
here, before our astonished senses, stand the



representative products of a colonial domin-
on which, exclusive of British India, embrac-
C8 an area of not less than 3,350,000 square
niles, and a population of some ten millions!
If India be added-and geographical bounda-
ries will hardly be anticipated or feel abused
if we do so include her-then the Colonial
possessions of Great Britain embrace an area
equal to nearly one-thirn of the land of the
whole earth, and a population scarcely less
than two hundred and twenty millions!
But let us descend from the dais under the
dome and review this most interesting divis-
ion of the Great Exhibition a little more in
detail-and yet very rapidly, for the world of
other nations is yet before us.
First, on our right, proceeding northward,



we encounter



  A full cluster of them, and finely represent-
ed by products of every class, both natural
and artificial, for which these interesting
tropical islands are remarkable-Jamaica,
Trinidad, Barbadoes, Demerara, Bermuda. St.
Vincent, Dominica.
  As yet the arts are only in their infancy in
these islands, but the spirit of progress i3 be-
ginning to be manifest. Here is
                  JAMAIC X
With a fine collection of objects in Natural
History-fishes and turtles, peculiar sea shells
&c; a display of the economic minerals of
Jamaica, including iron, lead, zinc and cop-
per ores; botanical specimens of much inter-
eat-Guinea corn, sugar cane, mountain cab-
bage, bamboos, 253 specimens of the woods,
such as rosewood, mahogany, ebony, cedar,
yacca, &c.; a very large and remarkably fine
collection of vegetable fibres, roots barks, &c.,
used by the nations in the manufacture of
paper, ropes, hats, umbrellas, and various fab-
rics; beautiful furniture from the yacca wood;
wax models of fruits and vegetables, includ-



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