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of the foliage of trees and plants. Akenside 

 says — 



• ** Autumn tinges ev'ry fertile branch 



With blooming- g-old and blushes like the morn." 



To these beauties is added the glowing colours 

 of ripened fruits, which have called forth the 

 lively effusions of the poets of all ages. Horace 

 observes in the fifth ode of his second book, 



" Autumn soon, of various dyes, 

 Shall with kinder warmth arise, 

 Bid the livid clusters fi^low, 

 And a riper purple show." 



Donne tells us, in poetical numbers, 



" No spring" or summer's beauty hath such grace. 

 As I have seen in one autumnal face." 



Pope seems equally to have regarded these 

 grand changes of nature ; 



" Not the fair fruit that on yon branches g"lows 

 With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows." 



And since to these numerous autumnal dyes 

 which nature throws over the plants of our coun- 

 try, we have added the brilliant colours which 

 the sun bestows on the plants of China's flowery 



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