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remembered. Of what moment to us, are the un- 

 daunted valor and consummate generalship displayed 

 by Lucullus, in his victories over Mithridates. They 

 served only to bring one more gallant monarch into 

 subjection, to that haughty and gigantic povs^er, 

 whose iron sceptre has long since been shattered, 

 to add one more jewel to the diadem, which has 

 been for ages trampled in the dust. But the taste 

 and assiduity of the Roman general, in naturalizing 

 the cherry-tree to the climate of Europe, has enti- 

 tled him to the grateful commemoration of sixty 

 generations. The empire, which France labored to 

 establish on our continent, has long since passed 

 away. The chain of fortresses, which she erected 

 on our northern and western borders, wdth so much 

 skill, and at such a cost, is rapidly vanishing from 

 our soil. Her very language is fast departing from 

 those regions, before the silent and peaceful progress 

 of our institutions. But the orchards of magnificent 

 and venerable pear-trees, planted by French colonists 

 on the banks of the beautiful Detroit river, yet 

 remain, a noble monument to the honor of the parent 

 country of modern Horticulture. 



How few can hope for a reputation so extensive, 

 so enduring, and so enviable, as that which will be 

 awarded, both in his country and ours, to Thomas 

 Andrew Knight. How long and how highly shall 

 we honor this high-minded Englishman, as the disin- 

 terested and unwearied benefactor of our infant Hor- 

 ticulture ? How nobly has he exemplified the great 

 truths, that the firmest loyalty to our own country is 

 compatible with the utmost liberality towards others ; 



