FLOWERS OF THE HOLY LAND. 



APPLICATION OF PREVIOUS REMARKS. 



N our remarks upon flowers we have chosen 

 such botanical interests as are closely con 

 nected with the flWers of the Holy Land. 

 Far greater beauties and mysteries in the 

 vegetable and particularly the floral world, 

 than any hitherto noticed, might be brought 

 into an interesting light; but there are some 

 particular marks of design and beauty impressed 

 upon the plants of the Orient which we shall 

 notice. In addition to what we have said, it 

 may be remarked that the plants and flowers 

 of any soil are unerring little witnesses to its former character. 

 Fruits and flowers are records of former fertility and of the 

 nature of former soils. If you present a handful of soil to an 

 agricultural chemist, after careful analysis he will, without 

 any knowledge of the country whence it was taken, tell you 

 the character of the plants that could not grow in it, as well 

 as the names of some that could. But, notwithstanding the 

 superior wisdom of the modern chemist, plants are far more 

 wonderful chemists, and surpass in their analytical power all 



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