40 Exotic Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Bulbs, and Seeds, 



the circumstances that may interfere, but this is far from 

 proving the inutility of such trials, one happy result which can 

 generally improve the methods of cultivation is worth the 

 labour of a whole life ; and an unsuccessful experiment, well 

 observed, must establish some truth, or tend to remove some 

 prejudice. Even considered merely a3 a philosophical science, 

 this department of knowledge is highly worthy of cultivation ; 

 (or what can be more delightful than to trace the forms of liv- 

 ing beings and their adaptations and peculiar purposes, to ex- 

 amine the progress of inorganic matter in its different processes 

 of change, till it attains its ultimate .and highest destination, 

 its subserviency to the purposes of man. 



Many of the sciences are ardently pursued, and considered 

 as proper objects of study for all refined minds, merely on ac- 

 count of the intellectual pleasure they afford, merely because 

 they enlarge our views of nature, and enable us to think more 

 correctly with respect to the beings and objects surrounding us. 

 How much more then is this department of inquiry worthy of 

 attention, in which the pleasure resulting from the love of truth 

 and of knowledge is as great as in any other branch of philoso- 

 phy, and in which it is likewise connected with much greater 

 practical benefits and advantages. Discoveries made in the 

 cultivation of the eaith, are not merely for the time aril country 

 in which they are developed, but they may be considered as 

 extending to futnro ages, and as ultimately lending to benelit 

 the whole human race, as affording subsistence for generations 

 yet to come, as multiplying life, and not only multiplying life, 

 but likewise providing- for its enjoyment. 



(7o be continued ) 



JJst of Exotic Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Bulbs; Garden, 

 Flutter, Forest, and other Seeds. Imported lately from 

 Germany (Wurtemberg and Hamburg), Holland, &c, 

 by the Danish Ship Norden, Cant. Bukd, and the Ionia, 

 Capt. C. Buck; for C. F. H. von Ltjdwig, Philosophi- 

 cal Dr. ; Knight of the Wurtembergian Crown and Gold 

 Civil Merit Order; Corresponding Member of the Wine 

 und Arts Institutions at Stutgart, the Sinkenbergischo 

 Institution at Frankfurth on the Main ; Member of the 

 South African Institution, and Literary Society, Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



No. Latin Names. rO^kl English Names. 



1. Accrplatanoides 2. Maple. 



2. pseudoplatanus '2. White maple. 



