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Gardening is a pursuit adapted alike to the g;ay and flic rc- 

 chiso, the man of pleasure, and the lover of science. To both 

 it offers employment such as may suit their taste, all that can 

 please by fragrance, by flavour, or by beauty; all that Science 

 may illustrate ; employment for the Chemist, the Botanist, the 

 Physiologist, and the Meteorologist. There is no taste so 

 perverse as that from it the Garden can win no attention, or to 

 which it can afford no pleasure. He who greatly benefitted or 

 promoted the happiness of mankind in the days of Pagan- 

 ism was invoked after .death and worshipped as a deity; in 

 these days we should be as grateful as they were without being 

 as extravagant in its demonstration ; and if so we should in- 

 deed highly estimate those who have been the improvers of 

 our Horticulture, for as Socrates says "it is the source of 

 health, strength, plenty, riches, and of a thousand sober de- 

 lights, and honest pleasures" " It is the purest of human plea- 

 sures" says our own Verulam. It is amid its scenes and pursuits 

 that "life flows pure, the heart more calmly beats." 



THE END. 



■White, Printer, Eye. 



