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displayed, no enemies to conquer, it is surely 

 impossible that we could feel the same pleasure 

 and personal triumph in our success. Then, too, 

 each year the intelligent gardener will arrange new 

 combinations, grow new varieties of plants, and 

 aim after a perfection which he can never hope 

 to reach. 



But the garden has no less also a scientific 

 interest. Fresh species of plants are continually 

 enriching our flower-beds, and botanists are 

 constantly searching the wildest and most remote 

 corners of the world on behalf of the English 

 stove-house, conservatory, and garden. They 

 endure untold hardships, and risk many dangers, 

 if only they may secure some new treasure. 

 Often they have caught deadly fever or met 

 with fatal accidents in their search, and, true 

 martyrs of science as they are, they pass away 

 forgotten, except perchance when some un- 

 wonted designation of a plant may recall, not 

 their memory indeed, but their name. But as 

 one drops off, another will succeed ; and so, 

 among far coral islands of the Pacific, in the 



