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air around him, and he inhales it with delight. Nor 

 is the appearance of the Shrubbery in autumn much 

 less striking ; the pendant berries and the changeful 

 leaf, exhibiting such diversity of shade and colour, 

 give to it a most picturesque effect, lovely, though 

 somewhat mournful. 



When one reflects indeed upon the length of time, 

 the toil, the trouble, and the vast expense, that have 

 necessarily been incurred in transplanting into Eng- 

 land from so many different countries, and bringing 

 as it were into one view, these elegant and useful 

 productions of nature, one cannot but be struck with 

 the patient and persevering industry of man, and 

 the force and application of his intellectual faculties 

 even in this pursuit; of which these exotic shrubs 

 and trees may be considered as lasting monuments, 

 growing in honour of all those, who have been so 

 fortunate as to have benefited their country by the 

 contribution of some new species or variety. 



The courteous reader may here, if he feel so in- 

 clined, not having the splendid reality before him, 

 indulge awhile in f wakeful reverie/ and fancy 



