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he lias done for me, six thousand or more years after. 

 He, Adam, had to work hard to keep every thing in good 

 condition ; and at that time there were no ploughs, no 

 agricultural implements of any kinds, as to-day. I am 

 not sure, even, if he had a spade, and a scythe to mow 

 the lawns. Sometimes he fell asleep on the grass, and 

 it was during one of those naps that God pulled one of 

 his ribs to make our mother, Eve, in order that he 

 should have an helpmate, to assist him in his light 

 agricultural and horticultural operations ; such as pick- 

 ing up fallen fruit among the grass, and after a more 

 intimate acquaintance to become his " Phanerogyne" 

 and then to study cryptogamy pshaw ! I meant to 

 say " progeny !" for I do not believe there were any 

 cryptogamous plants then ; even the science of progeny 

 was not known ; and this last science must have been 

 known and well understood before any one could study 

 the first cryptogamy .... and a useless one, almost, 

 and an aristocratic science. While " progeny " is the 

 science " par excellence," even superior to arithmetic, 

 for one must be expert in the former before he can 

 study the latter; for without that "divine science" 

 " progeny," that " sine qua non," without which noth- 

 ing can be had, here, I feel the itching of scribendi, 

 loquendi et cognoscendi, to write, to talk, and to know, 

 especially, what was the variety of the apple cultivated 

 on the grounds of Paradise. I would be willing to 



