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price, which circumstance soon brought him into 

 repute, and enabled him to follow the bent of his 

 inclination, and delight the connoisseurs of paintings 

 by the faithful touches of his pencil. 



Their various tastes, in different arts display'd, 

 Like temper'd harmony of light and shade, 

 "With friendly union in one mass shall blend, 

 And this adorn the state, and that defend. 



Some trace with curious search the hidden cause 

 Of Nature's changes, and her various laws : 

 Untwist her beauteous web, disrobe her charms, 

 And hunt her to her elemental forms ; 

 Or prove what hidden pow'rs in herbs are found, 

 To quench disease, and cool the burning wound. 



T \Ye had, previously to the discovery of the Sweet 

 Tussilage, become acquainted with nine different 

 species of these plants, some of which have, for 

 many ages, been celebrated in medicine for diseases 

 of the lungs, and relieving coughs, on which ac- 

 count their generic name was derived from tussis 

 and agere. 



The thyrsi of this fragrant plant are of a whitish 

 lilac tint, and the odour greatly resembles that of 

 the Heliotrope. It is easily propagated by parting 

 the roots in the summer, and planting them in a 

 free, light, and fresh earth, in a warm and sheltered 

 situation. It is also planted in pots, for the purpose 

 of perfuming our winter apartments; and thus the 

 plant which, so short a time back, could not, by 



