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roses, jasmines, carnations. It is assuredly the most beautiful, 

 the most surprising, and the most enchanted novelty imaginable. 

 7 A2/g., 1675. — Letters to Madame Grigjtan. 



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JOHN A FTER this, he (the Interpreter) led them into his Garden, 



(^628^1688? where was great Variety of Flowers : And he said. Do you see 



all these ? So Christian said, Yes. Then said he again, Behold 

 the Flowers are divers in Stature, in Quality, and Colour, and 

 Smell, and Virtue ; and some are better than some : Also 

 where the Gardener hath set them, there they stand, and 

 quarrel not one with another. . . . When the Interpreter had 

 done, he takes them out into his Garden again, and had them 

 to a Tree, whose inside was all rotten and gone, and yet it 

 grew and had leaves. Then said Mercy, What means this? 

 This Tree, said he, whose Outside is fair and whose Inside 

 is rotten, it is, to which may be compared, that are in the 

 Garden of God : Who with their Mouths speak high in Be- 

 half of God, but in deed will do nothing for him; whose 

 Leaves are fair, but their Hearts good for nothing but to be 

 Tinder for the Devil's Tinder-Box. — The Pilgrim' s Progress. 



JOHN RAY, One of the founders of modern Zoology and Botany : originally Greek Lecturer 

 (1627- 1705). at Catnbridge, where he was Fellow of Trinity with Sir Isaac Newton. He 

 published in 1660 A Catalogue of Plants around that town, and in 1673 

 ' Observations made in a Journey throtigh the Low Countries^ Germany, 

 Italy and France,^ giving information of atiimals and plants seeji dtving thj-ee 

 years. 1667, elected Fellow of Royal Society. 1682, '■'■ Methodtis Plantarum 

 nova,''^ as altered by himself , formed the basis of the System of Jtissieu received 

 at present day. 1670, his ' Catalogus Plantaru7n Anglice,' the basis of all sub- 

 sequent Floras of this Country. 1686, his Historia Plantarum [Vol. I. 

 appeared) ; made j?iany researches in Vegetable Physiology. 



Cuvier states, he was the model of the Systematists during the whole of the 

 iSth Century ( Whewell). Pay meditated a work to be entitled " Horti Anglice." 

 See his Letters. [Daijies Harrington). 



UT whether there be such a constant circulation of the Sap 

 in Plants as there is of the blood in Animals, as they would 

 from hence infer, there is some reason to doubt. 



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