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too much sulphur, have ruiued many valuable plants. Great care must be 

 taken not to ignite the sulphur, as the products of such combustion are very 

 deleterious to all plants. What is desired is the volatilized sulphur, which, 

 though fatal to the mite, is harmless to most plants, and which is secured by 

 the mere application of heat. The sulphurous acid fumes, the result of igni- 

 tion, on the other hand, are alike fatal to animal and plant. 



Thus I close this address: hoping that I have added my 7nite in the promo- 

 tion of aesthetic pursuits, and their glorious companion, esthetic culture. Is 

 he the greatest philanthropist, who supplants one blade of grass by two? Is 

 not he a greater, who develops in the barren heart a thorough love for the 

 great wealth of beauty, Avhich the All Father has sown, broad-cast, all about 

 us? As the impious soul, is, oh ! how bereft ! how poor! in not possessing the 

 divine., far reaching love, so the heart, devoid of aesthetic culture, gets only a 

 small part of those precious delights, which ought to come in glorious pro- 

 fusion from lake and flower, cloud and forest. What better work for this 

 Society, than to cherish, in every possible way, this love of the beautiful; for 



He prayetli best, who loveth best. 



All things, both great and small ; 

 For the dear Lord, who loveth us. 



He made and loveth all. 



