GUIDE 1 TO FLORICULTURE. 



GARDENING?. 



" No tale of passion have I to breathe, 

 Yet, gentle reader, I fain would wreathe 

 A floral garland, whose leaves shall be 

 Emblems and tokens of love and thee. 

 FLOWERS! they bloom by thelowliestcot 

 May they gladden, and brighten, and bless thy lot." 



Gardening is founded on natural philosophy, and the least 

 economical principle in its study of course informs the mind 

 into the nature and truth of the culture of flowers, and we 

 then discover the habit of those plants we wish to cultivate 

 with success. Where nature has not endowed the mind 

 with a natural taste for the physiological principles of the 

 culture of flowers, it is time lost by endeavoring to ac- 

 quire it 



" What then, is taste, but those internal powers, 

 Active and strong, and feelingly alive 

 To each fine impulse ? a discerning sense 

 Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust 

 From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross 

 In species'? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, 

 Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow : 

 But God alone, when first his active hand 

 Imprints the sacred bias of the soul." 



