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for the same purpose, and such as have ample 

 domains may be said to vie with each other 

 in their devotions to the flowery goddess. So 

 strongly is this love of natural beauties im- 

 planted in the breast of man, that the greater 

 part of those persons who have no allotment 

 in this terrestrial globe, except what is con- 

 fined in an earthen vase of some few inches in 

 diameter, contrive to raise a plant, and thus 

 peep at nature even within their brick-wall 

 bounds. 



There the picture stands 



A fragment, and the spoutless tea-pot there ; 

 Sad witnesses how close-pent man regrets 

 The country, with what ardour he contrives 

 A peep at nature, when he can no more. 



Cowper. 



Our observations on the formation of flower- 

 gardens can only be general, so much depend- 

 ing on extent and situation, that the best pos- 

 sible directions for one spot would be absurd 

 when put into practice in other sites. 



When we are too much confined for want of 

 land to delight by the appearance of extent, 

 we should endeavour to please by beauty ; 

 and where the bounds are too limited to dis- 



