iv PREFACE. i 



The ■writer has also sought, as occasion | 

 presented itself, to point the reader to the | 

 connexion existing between the kingdom of | 

 nature and the kinadom of heaven : since . 

 our knowledge would be but of little worth, j 

 though we could name every herb of the field, j 

 or rear every flo\ver of the garden, or classify 

 each tree of the forest, if we were ignorant ot 

 the living " Plant of Renown." 



