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drifts, the frozen ground and the leafless trees and placed into the mid- 

 dle of summer. All that is wanting is running brooks and the warbling 

 of birds to make everything complete. 



How many rare and choice plants and trees arc gathered here. 



Here are flowers in full bloom, filling the air with their rich fra- 

 grance, looking as fresh and beautiful as if it were in the month of June 

 instead of cold, bleak January. 



The grape vines seem to forget it is winter and clusters of lucious 

 fruit hang upon the vines. The orange and lemon trees are in bloom, 

 and at the same time the rich golden fruit may be seen on their boughs, 

 while other plants and trees that can live only in warm climates bear 

 their fruit here without, apparently, knowing that they are thousands of 

 miles away from home. 



Another beautiful scene is to be in the woods in the spring time. 

 The white snow, which lay as a carpet over the earth, all the cold, dreary 

 winter, is gone, the grass is green and the sun shines warm, the flowers 

 have come out from their mossy beds and are blooming in all of their 

 beauty and sweetness. The trees, dressed in their beautiful foliage, 

 spreading their towering tops over the beautifully carpeted earth be- 

 neath. The clear, sparkling water in the stream, rippling along in play- 

 ful glee, where the little fish are sporting in the bright sunlight. He 

 who would create his own pleasure grounds, these more delicate shades 

 of expression, must become a profound student, both of nature and of 

 art ; he must be able, by his own original powers, to seize the subtle es- 

 sence, the half disclosed idea involved in the finest parts of nature. 



To those who possess a lively and cultivated sense of the high 

 beauty of which landscape scenery presents to the eye, but who can also 

 see creation's God in every feature of the prospect. 



The painter can imitate, the poet, describe, and the tourist talk with 

 ecstacy of the sublime and beautiful objects which constitute the scene 

 before^ him ; but he can only be said to enjoy them aright whose 

 talents, tastes, and affections are consecrated to the glory of Him by 

 whom " all things were made, and without whom was not anything made 

 that was made." 



