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beneath the southern skies, to the strange continents of foreign seas and 

 verdant islands of the ocean, 



* * * whose lonely race 



Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds. 



Combined with this adventurous spirit of modern discovery, is another 

 principle, which has proved eminently favorable to the interests of horticul- 

 tural science. The higher social condition of those softer companions of 

 our garden-walks and labors and gentle cares ; the more liberal position 

 awarded them, under the influence of advancing civilization ; our deeper 

 interest in their moral and intellectual culture, and our more generous re- 

 gard for their innocent gratification, have interwoven a thousand graces and 

 refinements, once unknown, amongst the coarser texture of social life. 

 Never, indeed, do they enter so intimately into our joys, and griefs, and af- 

 fections, as in gardens and amongst flowers. For them, and not for our- 

 selves, we reclaim the scattered blossoms along the wilderness of Nature ; 

 we ask of them a more tasteful care in the cultivation of their beauties, and 

 for their pleasure and adornment, we mingle their glorious hues into innu- 

 merable shapes of grace and loveliness. 



Welcome, then, for this, if for no other cause, the Hall which you have 



thus prepared, and decorated and garlanded with the choicest treasures of 



the Spring. Long, long may it stand, an evidence of no vain or idolatrous 



worship. Unlike those grosser handmorks of cold and glittering marble, 



which crowned, in ancient days, the barren cliff, or looked, in lifeless 



beauty, 



Far out into the melancholy main, — 



but touched with the spirit of every gentle and noble association, and con- 

 secrated by the soul of all our dearest affections, welcome, to them and to 

 us, be this Temple of the Fruits and Flowers." 



Art. II. Every man his own Farrier ; containing the 

 causes, symptoms^ and most approved m,ethods of cure of 

 the Diseases of Horses. By Francis Clater, author of 

 every man his own Cattle Doctor, and his son John Clater. 

 First American, from the twenty-eighth London edition, 

 with Notes and Additions, by J. S. Skinner. 1 vol. 12mo. 

 pp. 220. Philadelphia. 1845. 



It is scarcely within the province of our Magazine to notice 

 works treating upon the management of that noble animal 

 the horse, though we doubt not a great many of our readers 



