Truly, much of our tenderest love of flowers comes from association, and many are lovingly recalled solely by their odors. Balmier breath than was ever borne by blossom is to me the pure pungent perfume of ambrosia, rightly named, as fit for the gods. Not the miserable weed ambrosia of the botany, but a lowly herb that grew throughout the entire summer everywhere in "our garden"; sowing its seeds broadcast from year to year; springing up unchecked in every unoccupied corner, and under every shrub and bushy plant; giving out from serrated leaf and irregular raceme of tiny pale-green flowers, a spicy aromatic fragrance if we brushed past it, or pulled a weed from amongst it as we strolled down the garden walk. And it is our very own--I have never seen it elsewhere than at my old home, and in the gardens of neighbors to whom its seeds were given by the gentle hand that planted "our garden" and made it a delight. Goethe says, "Some flowers are lovely to the eye, but others are lovely to the heart." Ambrosia is lovely to my heart, for it was my mother's favorite. And as each "spring comes slowly up the way," I say in the words of Solomon, "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out"--that the balm and mint, the thyme and southernwood, the sweetbrier and ambrosia, may spring afresh and shed their tender incense to the memory of my mother, who planted them and loved their pure fragrance, and at whose presence, as at that of Eve, flowers ever sprung-- "And touched by her fair tendance gladlier grew." Index Abington, church vote in, 286. Acrelius, Dr., quoted, 146. Adams, Abigail, garden of, 435. Adams, John, quoted, 71, 160; Sunday dinner of, 159-160; cider-drinking of, 161. Adams, John Quincy, Mrs., straw bonnet of, 261. Adams family, homes of, 22. Albany, houses at, 9; deer in, 109; beer at, 161; bad boys in, 374-375; first church in, 385; cow-herding in, 399. Alchymy, 88. Alewives, in New England waters, 120. Ambrosia, a flower, 450. Ames, quoted, 136. Amherst, sign-board at, 360. Andirons, 62. Andover, church vote in, 286; bad boy in, 373. Annapolis, dress in, 293. Apostle spoons, 90. Apples, culture of, 145; plenty in Maryland, 145; modes of cooking, 146; in pies, 146. Apple-butter, 146-147. Apple-paring, 146-147. Apple-sauce, 146-147. Architecture, of churches, 364 _et seq._, 385 _et seq._ Arkamy, 88. Axe-helves, 314-315. Back-bar of fireplace, description, 53. Bacon, quoted, 431. Bagging, from coarse flax, 172. Bake-kettle, 66. Bake-shops, 147. Ballots, of corn and beans, 141. Balsam, as dye, 194. Baltimore, dress in, 293; taverns in, 359. Banyan, 294. Barberry, root as dye, 194. Basins, 106. Bass, in New England waters, 120-121. Bass-viols, in meeting, 378. Bates of flax, 169. Batteau, 329. Batten, of loom, 220-221. Baxter, 187.