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their dislike to our country : yet we would not go 

 so far as Mason, and say, 



When foreign or fantastic, never charnVd 

 3Iy judgment ; 



for all good citizens are bound to admire the exer- 

 tions of those who endeavour, as Cowper observes, 



To give the Pole the produce of the sun, 

 And knit th' unsocial climates into one ! 



The large-flowered Dwarf Gentian, or Gentia- 

 nella, is by botanists named Gentiana Acaulis, be- 

 cause in its natural state the flowers have no stalk, 

 but by the force of cultivation it frequently throws 

 up its corolla on a kind of stem. This species 

 grows naturally on the Welsh mountains, as well 

 as those of the Alps. Ray found it on the highest 

 parts of Mount Jura in Switzerland, and it has 

 also been found in Austria, Carniola, and Silesia ; 

 yet, although a native of such exalted regions, it 

 flourishes in the garden, where the situation is 

 elevated, and the air is pure. Thus it readily admits 

 cultivation in some parts of the country, whilst it 

 cannot be made to prosper in others, particularly 

 in the immediate vicinity of London. This is the 

 species of Gentian best known and most admired in 

 the garden, on account of the brilliancy of its blue, 

 which is equal to the finest of the metallic blues. 

 The corolla is monopetalous, and very large for the 

 size of the plant — therefore it has a fine effect when 



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