LIJZE ALL things living, in the world of mind or 

 of matter, the rose is beautified, enlarged, and strength- 

 ened by a course of judicious and persevering culture, 

 continued through successive generations. The art of hor- 

 ticulture is no leveller. Its triumphs are achieved by rigid 

 systems of selection and rejection, founded always on the 

 broad basis of intrinsic worth. The good cultivator propa- 

 gates no plants but the best. He carefully chooses those 

 marked out by conspicuous merit ; protects them from the 

 pollen of inferior sorts ; intermarries them, perhaps, with 

 other varieties of equal vigor and beauty ; saves their seed, 

 and raises from it, another generation. From the new 



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