Here lieth, to _digest macerate_, and _amalgamate_ into clay, _In Batneo Arenæ_, _Stratum super Stratum_ The _Residuum, Terra damnata_ and _Caput Mortuum_, Of BOYLE GODFREY, Chymist and M.D. A man who in this Earthly Laboratory pursued various _Processes_ to obtain _Arcanum Vitæ_, Or the Secret to Live; Also _Aurum Vitæ_, or the art of getting rather than making gold. _Alchymist_-like, all his Labour and _Projection_, as _Mercury_ in the Fire, _Evaporated_ in _Fume_ when he _Dissolved_ to his first principles. He _departed_ as poor as the last drops of an _Alembic_; for Riches are not poured on the _Adepts_ of this world. Though fond of News, he carefully avoided the _Fermentation, Effervescence_, and _Decrepitation_ of this life. Full seventy years his _Exalted Essence_ was _hermetically_ sealed in its _Terrene Matrass_; but the Radical Moisture being _exhausted_, the _Elixir Vitæ_ spent, And _exsiccate_ to a _Cuticle_, he could not _suspend_ longer in his _Vehicle_, but _precipitated Gradatim, per_ _Campanam_, to his original dust. May that light, brighter than _Bolognian Phosphorus_, Preserve him from the _Athanor, Empyreuma_, and _Reverberatory Furnace_ of the other world, Depurate him from the _Fæces_ and _Scoria_ of this, Highly _Rectify_ and _Volatilize_, his _æthereal_ spirit, Bring it over the _Helm_ of the _Retort_ of this Globe, place in a proper _Recipient_ or _Crystalline_ orb, Among the elect of the _Flowers of Benjamin_; never to be _saturated_ till the General _Resuscitation, Deflagration, Calcination,_ and _Sublimation_ of all things. * * * * * A NEW STOVE CLIMBER. (_Ipomæa thomsoniana_.) The first time we saw flowers of this beautiful new climbing plant (about a year ago) we thought that it was a white-flowered variety of the favorite old Ipomæa Horsfalliæ, as it so nearly resembles it. It has, however, been proved to be a distinct new species, and Dr. Masters has named it in compliment to Mr. Thomson of Edinburgh. It differs from I. Horsfalliæ in having the leaflets in sets of threes instead of fives, and, moreover, they are quite entire. The flowers, too, are quite double the size of those of Horsfalliæ, but are produced in clusters in much the same way; they are snow-white. This Ipomæa is indeed a welcome addition to the list of stove-climbing plants, and will undoubtedly become as popular as I. Horsfalliæ, which may be found in almost every stove. It is of easy culture and of rapid growth, and it is to be hoped that it is as continuous in flowering as Horsfalliæ. It is among the new plants of the year now being distributed by Mr. B.S. Williams, of the Victoria Nurseries, Upper Holloway.--_The Garden_. [Illustration: A NEW STOVE CLIMBER. IPOMÆA THOMSONIANA.] * * * * * HISTORY OF WHEAT.