CHAPTER VI. 



BOTANICAL: THE UPPER CLASSES. 



" Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, 

 nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 

 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord ; and in his Law doth ho 

 meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the 

 rivers of water, that bringeth forth, his fruit in his season ; his leaf also 

 shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." DAVID. 



E are now to explore some of the invisible 

 regions of the upper classes of vegetable 

 life, and to ponder over the structure of a 

 few of the inhabitants of the invisible 

 world with the necessary aid of our instru- 

 ment. Let me tell you that much patience 

 as well as perseverance will be necessary, and we 

 must learn how to take advantage of every description 

 of illumination; for it is equally true of one of God's 

 revelations as it is of the other everything depends upon 

 light. "We may fail in discovering some of the pro- 

 foundest of His secrets through ignorance of the way to 

 the purest light ; or, we may be blinded with an excess 

 of light. The same principle holds true in the Word 

 of God as in the works of God, and the devout student of 

 Scripture, as well as the thoughtful lover of the micro- 

 scope, has continually to say, " In Thy light shall we see 



