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THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



gratified themes for the pencil of the artist, who " holds, 

 as it were, the mirror up to nature," and the architect, 

 when he designed his vistas of slender columns spreading 

 out into and supporting roofs of tracery, might well be sup- 

 posed to have had in his " mind's eye " some beautiful recol- 

 lection of the arcades of Nature's palaces in the sombre 



FOREST SCENE. 



forests, where the twisted trunks of the trees, the fretwork 

 of their branches, and the leafy covering formed by their 

 leaves, supply all the requisites of a grand and lofty 

 temple, fit for the worship of that great .First Cause who 

 formed them. 



