flowers and the baskets of fruits join their persua- 

 sions : and all unite, to win admiration and seduce 

 attention to the pursuits of horticulture. 



A native feeling responds cordially to the appeal 

 of the loveliness of the children of the border. 

 There springs in every heart the hope to crown a 

 life of earnest industry with an old age of tranquil re- 

 pose. Amid the busy stir of the world, those who 

 are most active in its turmoil, are cheered by the 

 prospect of a serene evening, when they may con- 

 nect themselves with the earth by the affectionate 

 relation of improvement. Repressed and confined 

 by weary avocations, the universality of the senti- 

 ment is attested, by the laburnum and honey-suckle 

 nestling among the walls of the city, by the myrtle 

 and geranium nursed on the carpeted floors of the 

 town, by the rose and the daisy peeping from the 

 windows of the artisan's home and the manufactur- 

 er's cottage. 



When man's first abode was planted in Eden, an 

 inspired precept was inculcated, and a sacred ex- 

 ample held out, of the best condition of existence, 

 and of the happiness to be sought among the types 

 of purity and the emblems of innocence. He who 

 will walk in the garden with humility, may yet hear 

 the voice of God in its bowers. From that ground, 

 still springs the knowledge of good without the bit- 

 ter connexion of the perception of evil. The tree 

 of life, with its foliage of unfading verdure, may 

 still take root in that soil. It is an elevated wor- 

 ship to trace the perfection of the works of crea- 

 tion's Architect. On the perishing forms of the ma- 

 terial frame, is mirrored the undying freshness of 



