About a month after the loss of the Independence, I happened to meet Captain Hardy in Broadway.

and he felt as hardy as a lion, and bursting from them who did all they could to hold him, he followed whithersoever the spirit led him.

It is hardier than the orange, and, as one of the citron tribe, was brought into Europe by the Arabians.

The terati Talfourd's day were clearly hardier of digestion than their descendants are.

It is quite hardy at Kew.

[Illustration: "Master Hardy on the beach enacting the part of David.

It can, however, be said that it is equally hardy with some of the finer kinds of Hydrangea, to which genus it is nearly allied.

"Fine team, that one o' yours," said Salmon P. Hardy to the trader.

For planting against a southern-facing wall this pretty shrub is well suited, but it is not sufficiently hardy for the colder parts of the country.

Only two minutes before he had taken Mr. James Hardy into the kitchen to point out the interior beauties of an ancient clock, and the situation simply appalled him.

In the South of England, however, it is quite hardy against a sunny wall.

It is quite hardy around London, and produces its large, white, fragrant flowers in succession during May and June.

"Halloa, Jack," shouted Master Hardy across the road.

It is unmindful of soil, if that is of at all fair quality, and may be said to be perfectly hardy over the greater part of the country.

The Home of Hardy near Dorchester (the Casterbridge of the Novels).

Unfortunately, the Benthamia is not hardy throughout the country, the south and west of England, especially Cornwall, and the southern parts of Ireland being the favoured spots where this handsome shrub or small growing treefor in Cornwall it has attained to fully 45 feet in height, and in Cork nearly 30 feetmay be found in a really thriving condition.

Besides, I liked the man; rugged and hardy by nature, it was curious to see what strange effects a long, wasting, and painful disease produced upon him.

In this we have a valuable evergreen shrub that is hardy beyond a doubt, and that will thrive in the very poorest classes of soils.