314 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



and under the pavement, enriching with theif 

 ciufters the complete front of a guard-houfe. One 

 of them, I think about fix or feven years ago, pro- 

 duced two crops in one year, as was announced in 

 the public prints. 



Animal Harmonies of Plants with Man* 



But Nature was not fatisfied with having given 

 to Man a bower, and a carpet, loaded with fruit ; 

 this would not have availed him, had (lie not like- 

 wife furniihed him, in the vegetable order itfelf, 

 the means of defence againft the depredations of 

 wild beafts. In vain would he have watched over 

 the prefervation of his property through the day, 

 had it been expofed to pillage during the night. 

 She has beftowed a prickly fhrubbery to enclofe 

 him roupd and round. The farther we advance 

 fouthward, we find the greater variety in the fpe- 

 cies of thefe. But, on the contrary, we fee few^ 

 if any, of thofe thorny ihrubs in the North, where 

 they appear ufelefs ; there being no orchards to de- 

 fend. They feem to be produced, in both Indies, 

 for every kind of fituation. Though I have been 

 only on the felvage, as I may fay, of thofe coun- 

 tries, I have feen there a great number of fuch. 

 fhrubs, the ftudy of which prefented a great va- 

 riety of curious remarks to a-Naturalift. 



Among 



