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olive and the orange. The moral and intellectual, 

 and physical vigor of the race nurtured amid snow- 

 crowned heights and frost bound streams, is better than 

 the indolent repose and delicate refinement of realms 

 fanned by more genial breezes. Truth, knowledge, 

 independence, are the fruits ripened on our northern 

 hills : they require the peculiar effects of cold to give 

 the maturity of their most excellent flavor. 



The ruggedness of soil, and the asperity of cli- 

 mate, may afford to the cultivator, as many triumphs 

 of skill, as trials of resolution. That flexibility of 

 constitution which has supported the human race 

 in wide wanderings from the plains where the ark 

 rested, extending through the vegetable popula- 

 tion, may enable us to assemble together the pro- 

 ductions of every parallel of latitude, and to draw 

 from the medicinal herbs, remedies for every dis- 

 ease, and from the esculent plants, luxuries for ev- 

 ery taste. These are achievements yet to be ac- 

 complished by the Gardener. The notion is as false 

 as it is common, that he is occupied only, with legis- 

 lation in the kingdom of cabbages, or in educating 

 turnips, or bestowing elegant accomplishments on 

 squashes. It is a most unworthy conception of a 

 noble art, which limits its ends and uses, to supply- 

 ing the table with delicacies and the vase with dec- 

 orations, or expediting the mysteries and furnishing 

 materials for the miracles of the great culinary ar- 

 tists. It would be as correct to suppose, that the 

 element of fire expended its boundless energy in 

 warming the mess of pottage, or brightening the par- 

 lor grate. 



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