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skirted this stream^ and which seemed to form one grand park. 

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which grew in the hedges. We have frequently heard censures 

 passed, and even made them ourselves, on the intense colours of the 

 figures of plants in the Flora Londinensis and English Botany ; 

 but we now plainly perceived that our complaint was unfounded, 

 the prevaihng hue of the vegetation being even of a deeper tone than 

 it is represented in those plates. Except Ukr europmus. Genista 

 anglica, and a species of Rubus^ (which, though called by all the 

 botanists of this country K.fruticosns, is not the plant which bears 

 that name on the continent, of which the corollas are always pale 

 red^) we observed nothing in the Flora of the roadsides which struck 



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On the 27th, about noon, we proceeded in the mail-coach from 

 Ipswich to Norwich, where, by a fortunate circumstance, we accom- 

 plished the object of our journey thither. Sir James E. Smith, to 

 whom we made this pilgrimage, had just returned home from the 

 country, and w^as on the point of again visiting his friends when we 

 called on him at his beautiful house. Our joy was great at finding 

 this most respectable man so far recovered from the severe illness 

 * which had threatened his life, as to be again enabled to devote his 

 leisure hours to the amahilis scientia. He was then employed in 

 revising some printed sheets of the third edition of his Introduction 

 to the Study of Botany. Sir J. E. Smith displayed to us the trea- 

 sures of his collection, (in reality the only one of its kind,) with a 

 courtesy and kindness which are peculiar to great and well-educated 

 men ; and which in this truly noble person are heightened by such 

 charms of gentleness and affability, as cannot fail to attract to him 

 most forcibly even such individuals as have but once enjoyed the 

 privilege of his society. The books of Linnceus, with their margins 

 full of notes in the handwriting of the immortal Swede; many valu- 

 able MSS. of his, not yet published; the Linnaean Herbarium, in the 

 same order and even occupying the very cases which had con- 

 tained it at Upsal^ (little as the old-fashioned form of these cabinets 

 corresponds with the elegant arrangement of Smith's museum) ; the 

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