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tinned search for every kind of tree, shrub, 

 and herb, that could either please the eye, 

 gratify the taste, or contribute to the advan- 

 tage of medicine ; the hottest and the coldest 

 climates have been explored ; and those 

 plants that, for want of a warmer sun, would 

 not flourish naturally in this country, have 

 had an artificial clime and temperature fur- 

 nished to them. Our cottage walls are now 

 covered with the roses of China ; our gardens 

 with the flowers of Persia; and even the 

 woods ornamented with the spiral blossoms 

 of the Asiatic chesnut : in short, the various 

 plants of all the world have been introduced 

 to beautify our happy land ; and with such 

 success, as to render it difficult sometimes 

 to say, which are natives, and which are 

 not. 



The Agricultural Society has succeeded 

 in improving our farms, the very meadows 

 of which are clothed anew : this produces 

 the grass of the Italian fields, and that the 

 pasture of the Netherlands : the chalky hills 

 wave with corn, our marshes are no longer 

 stagnated, and famine, which formerly suc- 

 ceeded an unfavourable season, seems no 

 longer to be dreaded. 



The Horticultural Society was established 

 in the year 1809? in order to give further 

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