BOOKOFOLD-WORLDGARDENS 



Solomon's You must nurse your own flowers, if you would 

 ^| have them flourish, unless you happen to have 

 a gardener, who is as fond of them as yourself. 

 Eve was not busier with hers in Paradise, her 

 " pleasant task injoined," than Betsey Allison 

 and her aunt, from the time that early spring 

 invited them to their cheerful employment, 

 till late and monitory autumn closed it for the 

 year. 



"Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 one of these"; and Solomon in all his wisdom 

 never taught more wholesome lessons than 

 these silent monitors convey to a thoughtful 

 mind and an understanding heart. "There are 

 two books," says Sir Thomas Browne, " from 

 whence I collect my Divinity; besides that 

 written one of God, another of his servant 

 Nature that universal and public manuscript 

 that lies expansed unto the eyes of all. Those 

 that never saw him in the one have discovered 

 him in the other. This was the scripture and 

 theology of the heathens : the natural motion 

 of the sun made them more admire him than 

 its supernatural station did the children of 

 Israel; the ordinary effects of Nature wrought 

 more admiration in them, than in the other all 



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