96 THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



A part of this land has been devoted to the forma- 

 tion of a botanical garden^ in which every year are feen 

 200D ditFerent plants, of which fome arc extremely 

 rare ; and this garden v^as placed under the care of Tii\ 

 Locker, 



All thcfe dilFcrcnt operations, of the Philofophlcal 



Society, let it be repeated, are the conlequence of its fit^fl 

 CQ7incciion with Kliyo^g* Thus the virtues of private 

 lUe may extend their influeiace to the whole of human 

 focietv ; jnft as nn oak by its aQorns may furround it- 

 Icli' with other oaks, which ailing in like manner, the 

 original oak becomes attended by a majefUc foreil.''^ 



* The French editor in a notCj informs us of a clergytnan of the name 

 of Cciofnbel, who every year provided dliterent prizes for his parifhion- 

 rrs, of which tlie Agrtculiural Sncieiy of Alencor had the dillrihution. — ^ 

 Ihi^ relates olfo, th:t M. de la Pt-rriere, Jin aiuient tmiflceteer of the King 

 ofFrar-ce, gave afeftival yearly; to whjcrt thcfe only were admitted, wha 

 had c^iflinguilhe.i thedifclves by their exer(ions and fuccefs in zgriculture. 

 Ag! jcjltural concerns foraic J the fuhj^ii^ of a conf^ji-ence upr>n this occafion, 

 and tiiC pre-eminence tf ihofe who had done rnnft in the year was decsd- 

 rd by a tribunal. The ptrifli of Cepsde, in the old duchy of Aguiljon, 

 n {aid by this means lo h:!ve becooie ihe beft culdvaied of any iri its 

 neighborhood, 



Ir is affir-ned in a French puViication, that in Alface they have fuc- 

 ceedcd in relfing fo'-nc of the fineft vegetables in Europe ; owing to the 

 magiiharcs at Strafburg giving a fmall gratification to thofc bringing ta 

 market the fincft bcefj cjbb?ge, &c. 



Gardr-nin^ iind fruit trees fuinifii fubje(51s which might properly fail 

 within (he ol j?rt9 of a le^urer in agriculture, Premiunns lilfo may fie 

 <jiven to ihofe making known new fruits and ne^' garden vegetables, 

 uith the variorjs ufe? rn which they may be applied. In many parts of 

 J;he northern worU, vegetables as the companioiis of animal food are in 

 rarioos inftances ff very modern date. The advantages of the roan- 

 ^ oult (.nan's gold) of the Germans and Swifs, an agreeable and produc- 

 cive kind of bjct, are ftill ut^heard of in diffVrcnt countries, whtre this 

 fiant wo.ilj fucceed. ■ E. 



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