16 THE STRAWBERRY. 



it embellishes ; Avhen we contemplate how it is pre- 

 j served during a winter's cold, capable of cleaving 



* stones — how it appears verdant in the spring, without 

 any pains employed to preserve it from frost and snow 

 — how, feeble and trailing along the ground, it should 



I be able to migrate from the deepest valleys to Alpine 



vheights — ^to traverse the globe from north to south, 



? from mountain to mountain, forming, on its passage 



* over prairie and plain, a thousand mingled patches of 

 » checker- work of its fair flowers and scarlet or rose- 

 » colored fruit, with the plants of every clime — how it 



jhas been able to scatter itself from the mountains of 

 ^Cashmere to Archangel, from Kamschatka to Spain — 

 how, in a word, we find it in equal abundance on the 

 continent of America, from the bleak fields of Tierra 

 idel Fuego to Oregon and Hudson's Bay, though 

 myriads of animals are making incessant and universal 

 havoc upon it, yet no gardener is necessary to sow it 

 again — we are struck with wonder and admiration at 

 so precious a gift." 



