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the primary objects of scenery, we need not disdain 
those ornamentation - works which serve to embel- 
lish still more a stately structure. We can build 
grottos, if our means admit of the conveyance of 
rocks from the distance. We can raise islands, and 
convert swamps into lakes, whenever the resources 
of a young establishment are no longer taxed with 
still more important obligations. We can have fount- 
ains playing in all directions, whenever our botanic 
garden can participate in that supply and pressure of 
our great waterworks which is allotted to other sub- 
urban parks. We can raise statues also, to glorify 
monumentally what is noble and great. We can 
draw banded flowers through smooth and verdant 
lawns with the utmost gaiety. But while attempting 
all this, we should never lose sight of the still higher 
objects for which a botanic institution is founded ; 
otherwise, while trifling away slender means on per- 
haps even trivialities, we have failed to afford our 
early guidance to lasting prosperity or progressive 
-and enduring advancements; and yet the accom- 
plishment of this alone is an herculean task. 
Rest assured, a garden so conducted as to fulfill its 
‘true destination will never fail to provide in large 
measure the purest of enjoyments and the amplest of 
comfort also. 
The sufferer, who may watch the varied autumnal 
tints, will he be less cognizant in a garden of science 
how frailness finally prevails in all organie structure? 
Or when contemplating the forms of plants arranged 
by the rules of knowledge, will he feel less influenced 
‘to seek consolation from them? For, surrounded by 
the yet expressive and imposing sceneries, he may 
