GKEENHOUSE TEENS. 



IT is one of the mysteries of Nature, that one plant will bear 

 the extreme heat of the tropics, and another, of apparently 

 similar form and as delicate a structure, will nourish only in 

 the opposite extreme of cold, whilst a third requires a more 

 temperate clime. Though a mystery to us, it is a wise and 

 merciful dispensation by the Creator and Disposer of all things ; 

 for by this adaptation to different climates every part of the 

 earth is furnished with plants yielding food, when cultivated, 

 for the use of man, as well as flowers to gladden his eyes and 

 gratify the love of the beautiful in his heart. Not only are 

 these useful and lovely products of the soil given to man, but 

 also the light of knowledge to collect them together, improve 

 them, choosing some and rejecting others according to his 

 wants or desires. 



This knowledge leads men to endeavour to bring together 

 plants that may be useful or ornamental from all parts of the 

 globe ; and this is the highest effort of a civilised mind. The 

 mere savage contents himself with the fruits only that yield 

 him food without culture, growing around the place where he 

 was born; and that careless or improvident state of mind 

 constitutes, in a great degree, the difference between the 



