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and soil ; some choose the mountain, and some the 

 valley ; some flourish best in poor ground, and many 

 are to be found only in the richest pastures. Nor are 

 they less remarkable for their different qualities. In 

 some are combined the qualities of fragrance and 

 beauty ; but those which have little of the latter, have 

 often valuable properties as medicines. Even those 

 which were formerly esteemed poisonous, are now found 

 to be useful to the skilful Physician, and class among 

 the most beneficial of his remedies. In short, every 

 combination of beauty and utility that the mind cMa 

 conceive, and far more than it could have imagined, 

 is to be found in those flowers which are so widely 

 scattered over the fair face of the whole earth, as if 

 for the express purpose of awakening man's attention 

 every where to the beauty of the works of God, and 

 convincing him that the same Almighty Wisdom inte- 

 rests itself in the small, as in the great things of the 

 universe ; no less in the ornaments with which it has 

 decked the earth, than in those stupendous orbs of 

 light with which his Spirit hath garnished the heavens. 

 It is not, however, a mere admiration of the beauties 

 of the Flower Garden that we recommend to our 

 readers. The Christian Naturalist sees in the variety 

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