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objects, which the natural and visible world presents, by the 

 associations which science throws around them. This practice, 

 I found, prevailed in other public gardens and pleasure-grounds. 

 It was the case in the beautiful and highly-cultivated botanical 

 garden in the neighborhood of Liverpool, which, though created 

 and supported by private subscriptions, and for scientific pur 

 poses, is yet free of access to the public one or more days in the 

 week. The same is the case with the very tasteful garden in 

 Sheffield, a romantic and charming piece of ground, which, 

 though on a small scale, combines many attractions : and like 

 wise with the Arboretum at Derby, embracing, I think, about 

 eleven acres, and formed into a garden and pleasure-ground for 

 the public recreation. This last is the fruit of individual mu 

 nificence. Mr. Strutt, an eminent manufacturer at Derby, em 

 ployed Mr. London the late distinguished horticultural writer 

 to lay out, plant, and ornament these grounds, at an expense 

 of ten thousand pounds sterling, or fifty thousand dollars : and 

 then, with eminent liberality, gave them to the city of Derby 

 for the public use and enjoyment of its inhabitants. Tens of 

 thousands of pounds expended in the erection of a Corinthian 

 column, or a marble mausoleum, would not have formed so 

 durable or extended a memorial of him ; and thousands upon 

 thousands yet unborn, in the enjoyment of this beneficence, will 

 invoke blessings upon his memory. 



X. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND FLOWERS. 



The cultivation of flowers and shrubs is a prominent feature 

 in the landscape of England ; and a circumstance which has 

 given no little gratification to my national pride, has been the 

 profusion of American plants, azalias and kalmias, magnolias and 

 rhododendrons, and a large variety of pines and firs, which are 

 seen in the shrubberies and plantations and pleasure-grounds, 

 both public and private. A very large establishment in London 

 js exclusively devoted to the sale of American plants ; and they 

 are every where admired for the splendor of their foliage and the 

 beauty of their flowers. Greenhouses and conservatories are 

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