200 AN ESSAY. 



ing such plants alone, as I have done, and in view of 

 making money only. But, IF you want, if you wish 

 and feel like growing, cultivating both the " utile dul- 

 cis" the useful and the agreeable, two very different 

 crops one the crop-food for the body, and the other 

 crop for the mind, the moral then I say Go ahead ! 

 Forward ! ! En avant ! ! Help yourselves and heaven 

 will help you 1 



I have in store many more remarks more or less 

 edifying, or perchance soporiferous / but discretion 

 forbids me to say any more sat prata biberunt. . . 

 You have listened long enough. 



Wishing all the members of our Horticultural So- 

 ciety, all who love Nature in all her various aspects, the 

 fields,* the woods, even Orchids, for I am not exclusive, 

 I am a sort of pantophile in the vegetable kingdom's 

 LINE understood ! 



Au plaisir de vous revoir I 

 ALBANY, January 1, 1883. L. MEN AND. 



* Qui fait aimer les champs fait aimer la vertu (Delille). 



* He who inspires the love of nature inspires the love of virtue. 



