l$Q STUDIES OF NATURE. 



that Nature has directed all the parts of vegetation, 

 as to the principal object. That faying of Wis- 

 dom itfelf, by their fruits ye JJjall know them, is, 

 at leaft, as applicable to plants as to the human 

 ipecies. 



We lhall examine, therefore, the general cha- 

 racters of plants, with relation to the places where 

 their feeds are accuftomed to grow. As the ani- 

 mal kingdom is divided into three great claffes, 

 quadrupeds, volatiles, and aquatics, relatively to 

 the three elements of the Globe ; we fhall, in like 

 manner, divide the vegetable kingdom into aerial 

 or mountain-plants ; into aquatics, or thofe of the 

 mores j and into terreftrial, or thofe of the plains. 

 But as this lafl participates of the two others, we 

 fhall not dwell upon it ; for, though I am per- 

 fuaded that every fpecies, nay, that every variety, 

 may be referred to fome particular lite of the earth, 

 and may grow there in it's higheft degree of 

 beauty, it is fufficient to fay as much of it here as 

 may be neceffary to the profperity of a fmall gar- 

 den. When we fhall have traced invariable cha- 

 racters, in the two extremities of the Vegetable 

 kingdom, it will be eafy to refer to .the interme- 

 diate claffes, thofe which are adapted to them. 

 We fhall begin with the plants of the mountains. 



Elementary 



