26 JANUARY. 



when many glories of Nature are to be witness- 

 ed ; her sweetest odours are poured out ; her 

 most impressive and balmy quiet is sent upon 

 earth. There, fearless of any " pestilence 

 that walks in darkness," the gentlest and most 

 timid creature may tread the smooth path of 

 the garden, and behold all the calm pageantry 

 of the glittering host of stars, of moonlight and 

 of clouds. The bowers of a good modern gar- 

 den invite us from the fierce heat of noon to the 

 most delicious of oratories, in dry summer 

 eves, to the most charming place of social en- 

 joyment. A garden, with all its accompani- 

 ments of bowers, secluded seats, shrubberies, 

 and hidden walks, is a concentration of a thou- 

 sand pleasant objects, and the field of a multi- 

 tude of animating pursuits. The rarest beauties 

 of the vegetable world are not only there con- 

 gregated, heightened in the richness and splen- 

 dour of their charms, but there many of them 

 are actually created. 



The feeble invalid and feebler age, they who 

 cannot lay hold on Nature in her amplitude, 

 though they may anxiously and intensely thirst 

 to renew, on heath and mountain, the enchant- 



