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first landing, he would look upon it as a natural 

 wilderness, and one of the uncultivated parts 

 of our country. My flowers grow up in several 

 parts of the garden in the greatest luxuriancy 

 and profusion. I am so far from being fond of 

 any particular one, by reason of its rarity, that 

 if I meet with any one in a field which pleases 

 me I give it a place in my garden. By this 

 means, when a stranger walks with me he is 

 surprised to see several large spots of ground 

 covered with ten thousand different colors, and 

 has often singled out flowers that he might have 

 met with under a common hedge, in a field, or 

 in a meadow, as some of the greatest beauties 

 of the place. The only method I observe in this 

 particular, is to range in the same quarter the 

 products of the same season, that they may make 

 their appearance together, and compose a pic- 

 ture of the greatest variety. There is the same 

 irregularity in my plantations, which run into 

 as great a wildness as their natures will permit. 

 I take in none that do not naturally rejoice in 

 the soil, and am pleased when I am walking in 

 a labyrinth of my own raising, not to know 

 whether the next tree I shall meet with is an ap- 

 ple or an oak, an elm or a pear-tree. My kitchen 

 has likewise its particular quarters assigned it ; 

 for besides the wholesome luxury which that 

 place abounds with, I have always thought a 



