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he has not brought in any pleasant wishes 

 for the fraudulent seedsmen, and, indeed, 

 these compositions seem to have nothing to 

 do with the rest of the volume, as they might 

 with equal propriety have been tacked on to 

 anything else. 



If one turns back to Bacon, after perusing 

 the pages of such a man, what a distance in 

 intellect there seems to be between the 

 Viscount St. Alban and this worthy Salopian 

 kitchen-gardener ; and yet, measured by his 

 rural contemporaries, the latter is to be 

 viewed as a reformer and the holder of 

 enlightened opinions. 



