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common, and of whose habits and transformations but little 

 is generally known. They will serve to show the necessity 

 of a deeper interest in entomological studies by all who are 

 interested in the cultivation of plants, that we may learn the 

 most advantageous period for destroying them. Armed with 

 knowledge, we can combat them with doubly effective force. 



THE LITERATURE OF GARDENING. 



BY WILSON FLAGQ. 



No. V. The Garden: or the Art of Laying out Grounds. 

 By the Abbe De Lille. 

 This poem, written in French by the Abbe de Lille, and 

 translated by an English lady, was undoubtedly suggested by 

 Mr. Whately's " Observations on Modern Gardening," a work 

 which was, soon after its publication, translated into French. 

 The " Garden" contains but little that is new, delivering in 

 metre the precepts which had been more fully expressed by 

 Mr. Whately in prose. Still it is a work of high poetical 

 merit, and to those who are willing to be trammelled in their 

 progress through a book by rhyme and metre, it may afford 

 more pleasure than a prose essay on the same subject. The 

 author commences with some happy allusions to ancient au- 

 thors, who have treated of collateral subjects, and then asks : 



" Would you adorn the simply charming plain, 

 Insult not nature with a gaudy train. 

 The task requires a deep, prophetic mind, 

 A genius, not a fortune unconfined ; 

 Less proud than elegant ; for pomp and show, 

 Let simple beauties 'mid thy gardens grow. 

 'Tis a vast picture, where in order rise 

 The lights and shades to charm the wondering eyes. 

 Paint then ; the flowery plains, their numerous shades, 

 The streams of light, the moss-imbrowned glades, 

 The hours, the seasons as they glide away, 

 The circling year, the lesser circling day, 

 Fringed with embroidery gay the meadow's pride, 

 The verdure clothed upland's sloping side, 



