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CONSTITUENT PRINCIPLES OF PLANTS. 



IT may perhaps not be thought improper in this 

 place to state, that all plants, by chemical analysis, 

 are found to consist of particles of calcareous earth, 

 oil, water, and air, with a portion of iron. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF A BAD AND GOOD 

 FLORIST, &c. 



THE gentleman or lady's gardener, who has no 

 other motive to incite him, beyond that of perform- 

 ing what he is ordered to do, will imagine all this 

 vast preparation of soils, all this extraordinary com- 

 rnixtion, a very unnecessary and useless trouble, and 

 will be disposed to slight and neglect it. In fact, I 

 have nowhere seen flowers so ill-treated and mis- 

 managed (with few exceptions) as in the gardens of 

 the nobility and gentry, even when there has been a 

 collection of fine flowers I allude not to Carnations 



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