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ought to be preserved till it dries off itself. As soon as you perceive 

 the germen swelling, stop the leading shoots. Apply all safe sti- 

 mulants till the seeds are ripe, hut do not let the pjant expend its 

 energies in the production of young wood. Pinch off every bud as it 

 offers to expand. Keep the plant or plants as near the glass as pos- 

 sible all the time, and sow the seeds as soon as ripe. Seedlings pro- 

 duced in the greenhouse will not be near so vigorous as those in the 

 stove ; and their being originated in heat does not alter their hardi- 

 ness in the least. 



ARTICLE IV. 



THE HISTORY OF GARDENING. 



BY CLEKICUS. 



( Continued from page 40.) 



One man, one great man we had, on whom nor education nor 

 custom could impose their prejudices; who, "on evil days though 

 fallen, and with darkness and solitude compassed round," judged 

 that the mistaken and fantastic ornaments he had seen in gardens, 

 were unworthy of the Almighty Hand that planted the delights of 

 Paradise. He seems, with the prophetic eye of taste, to have con- 

 ceived, to have foreseen modern gardening; as Lord Bacon an- 

 nounced the discoveries since made by experimental philosophy. 

 The description of Eden is a warmer and more just picture of the 

 present style than Claude Lorraine could have painted from Hagley 

 or Stourhead. The first lines I shall quote exhibit Stourhead on a 

 more magnificent scale : — 



Thro' Eden went a river large, 

 Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggy hill 

 Pass'd underneath'd ingulph'd, for God had thrown 

 That mountain as his garden mound, high rais'd 

 Upon the rapid current. 



Haglev seems pictured in what follows: — 



Which through veins 

 Of porous earth with kindly thirst npdrawn, 

 Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 

 Water'd the garden. 



What colouring, what freedom of pencil, what landscape in these 



lines ! 



