2?8 MEMOIRS OF 



as well as infeSs, and has the venomous 

 bite of a ferpent ; and a French naturalift 

 narrates, that it catches the humming bird 

 in it's ftrong nets. The circumftance is 

 thus elegantly pifiured in the Botanic 

 Queen's horticultural adjurations, 



So where the humming-bird, in Chili's bowers, 

 On r rmuring pinions robs the pendent flowers j 

 Seeks where fine pores their dulcet balms diftill, 

 And fucks the treafure with probofcis bill, 

 Fell Cyprepedia, &c. 



The difeafes of plants are next pointed 

 out, and they are illuftrated by a curious 

 facl in glafs-making. The pictures of 

 various flowers next rife on the page, in 

 botanic difcrimination, and in all the hues 

 of poetry. The exotic wealth of the Royal 

 Garden at Kew is celebrated ; and the con- 

 fcious pride of it's river, on the occafion, is 

 thus fweetly fancied : 



Delighted Thames through tropic umbrage glides, 

 The flowers antartic bending o'er his fides ; 

 Drinks the new tints, the fcents unknown inhales, 

 And calls the Sons of Science to the vales, 



Poetic 



