100 CONCLUSION. 



quite similar in all points on the very same 

 tree. 



Lastly INSTABILITY that does not allow 

 any forms nor frames to be perpetual nor ever 

 the same, giving to plants as to animals hirthy 

 groivth, decay and death ! in succession, within 

 a term of a few hours, a day, a month, a year, 

 or 1000 years. 



By these contending laws, always balancing 

 each other, Vegetation is regulated like the 

 Worlds and Skies by Gravitation and Repul- 

 sion. 



Symetry and Diversity are ever moulding or 

 changing the Vegetable forms : while Perpetu- 

 ity and Instability are ever controling their ex- 

 istence by successive reproductions, or vital 

 evolutions. 



Let us study these laws, let us ascertain their 

 effects, let us contemplate and admire the in- 

 numerable forms they evolve, sustain and im- 

 prove upon our EARTH — This is the study of 

 natural Botany, of floral beauties, and of GOD 

 working wonders there as elsewhere. 



HE rules the skies and in his hands upholds 

 The solar Worlds; while from his breath di- 



[vine 

 Spring living souls, that men and beings move. 

 By him alone the trees and shrubs are set, 

 And with the lesser plants, the spark of life 

 Receive, imbibing solar heat and light. 

 Then to the Sun their leafy limbs eqpand, 

 And nuptial buds with dazzling beauties bloom 

 Of thousand shapes and hues, or sweet per- 



[fumes ; 

 The Earth adorning with a verdant dress, 

 Sprinkled with floral gems like lucid stars, 



