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ance is concerned, would depend of course upon the taste 

 with which the rock-work was designed and executed, and 

 the plants distributed about it ; but whatever the result as 

 a matter of taste, the study of the living plant might be 

 prosecuted without inconvenience, and which could never 

 happen in their wild localities all the species might be 

 brought under the eye at one time, for the purpose of con- 

 trasting them, and studying their differences. 



