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accumulated within and around them, but every 

 isomeric substance therein converted into sugar, 

 and concentrated there, that there may be a 

 superabundance. Throughout all Flora's domains, 

 wherever her marriage rites are being consum- 

 mated, she makes a feast of nectar for the guests 

 which she invites to be present on the festive 

 occasion. There is always joy on the earth 

 whenever a germ is laid for a future existence, 

 whether one being more is about to be added 

 to the great household of God, or provision 

 merely made thereby for its maintenance and 

 enjoyment. There is no parsimony of good 

 things in creation. Hence honey from the flowers 

 of the fields for insects and bees, and from the 

 bees for man ; hence wines made from various 

 kinds of flowers for the home use of frugal ladies ; 

 and hence hundreds of other little facts all 

 unknown to uninitiated minds. 



A striking analogy thus manifests itself between 

 the fecundation of the ovules of grain and seeds 

 and their germination. Sugar must be present 

 during both processes ; and every substance that 

 can furnish sugar, either by a transmutation of 

 the arrangement of the elements themselves, or 

 by throwing ofi" any excess of carbon, readily 



