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tion that his labors will be rewarded with a new variety, that may add 

 lustre to that particular class of flowers, and that his friends, and the 

 floral world, may delight in beholding one of the handmaids of his 

 goddess in a new dress. Such, my readers, are the delights of the 

 lover of nature, and with all this nearly parental care, he may 

 mingle better feelings, — he may, in the midst of his ecstasy of ad- 

 miration, remember the divine Being who fashioned and painted 

 the object of his pleasure. The botanist with the world before 

 him, the king and the nobleman with his parks, the opulent mer- 

 chant with his villa, the cottager with his garden, and the mechanic 

 with his pots and tubs placed at his window, while he toils for his 

 daily bread, are each rewarded to the full, out of the never-failing 

 source of pleasure which the garden can dispense. To such of my 

 readers as have made a beginning in the garden, I would say, per- 

 severe ; to those who think of doing so, I would say, delay not ; to 

 such as suppose they have no means, I will give a picture drawn 

 from our favorite and amiable poet. 



" The most unfurnished with the means of Hfe, 

 And they, that never pass their brick wall bounds 

 To range the fields and treat their lungs with air, 

 Yet feel the burning instinct: over-head 

 Suspend their crazy boxes, planted thick, 

 And watered duly. There the pitcher stands, 

 A fragment, and the spoutless tea-pot there, — 

 Sad witnesses how close-pent man regrets 

 The country; with what ardor he contrives 

 A peep at nature, when he can no more." 



None need be discouraged ; a violet will smell as sweet, bloomed 

 in a broken tea-pot as in a China vase ; the rose will bloom as fair, 

 and shed its perfume as far, though bloomed in the poor man's tub 

 or crazy box, as in the rich parterre. 



The remarks and description that accompany the list of plants 

 annexed, and those which I may hereafter furnish for publication, 

 will, in some cases, be taken from such sources as 1 may think 

 best calculated to answer my purpose ; when I copy from others, I 

 shall give credit by making the usual quotation marks, but I shall 

 not give the author's name. If the plan now proposed shall meet 

 the approbation of the conductors of the " American Gardener's 

 Magazine," and may in any way be acceptable to its readers, I 

 may, as before remarked, continue this subject at some future 

 time ; but, in saying this much, I do not pledge myself so to do. 



Yours, he. S. Walker. 



Roxburij, March 22f/, 1836. 



(Tu be conlinued.) 



