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CHAPTEE XVIII. 



PREPARATIONS FOR REMOVAL. 



I&quot; the last chapter I have stated that so charming 

 did the country seem to me, so pure its pleasures, 

 and profitable its cultivation, that I resolved to re 

 move there permanently, and give up entirely the 

 less lucrative, if more distinguished, pursuit of the 

 law. A most essential preparation for this change 

 was the necessity of cultivating and increasing the 

 present stock of plants the tender and fragile 

 things requiring winter protection which the abun 

 dance of the last year had left me. My stock was 

 not, perhaps, what finished gardeners would call 

 choice ; they were not those out-of-the-way foreign 

 productions which only rejoice in one name, and that 

 a polysyllabic Latin one; but, although they were 

 equally entitled to a scientific appellation, they were 

 generally known under common ones. I had an 

 abundance of carnations, which I had sometimes re 

 ferred to as varieties of Dianthus caryophyllus 

 when my uneducated city visitors called to see me. 

 There was quite a stock of scarlet geranium ; for, al- 



