22 JANUARY. 



most impressive and balmy quiet is sent upon 

 earth. There, fearless of any " pestilence that 

 walks in darkness," the gentlest and most timid 

 creature may tread the smooth path of the gar- 

 den, and behold all the calm pageantry of the 

 glittering host of stars, of moonlight and of 

 clouds. The bowers of a good modern garden 

 invite us from the fierce heat of noon to the 

 most delicious of oratories, — in dry summer 

 eves, to the most charming place of social en- 

 joyment. A garden, with all its accompani- 

 ments of bowers, secluded seats, shrubberies, 

 and hidden walks, is a concentration of a thou- 

 sand pleasant objects, and the field of a multi- 

 tude of animating pursuits. The rarest beauties 

 of the vegetable world are not only there con- 

 gregated, heightened in the richness and splen- 

 dour of their charms, but there many of them 

 are actually created. 



The feeble invalid and feebler age, they who 

 cannot lay hold on Nature in her amplitude, 

 though they may anxiously and intensely thirst 

 to renew, on heath and mountain, the enchant- 

 ments of past days, can there grasp a multitude 

 of her delights at once. The sedentary man, 

 Secluded but not buried, and with song 

 Cheering his days, 



there finds the most congenial relaxation, the 

 most restorative exercise ever at hand. The 



