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THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



roses, jasmines, carnations. It is assuredly the most beautiful, 

 the most surprising, and the most enchanted novelty imaginable. 

 7 Aug., 1675. Letters to Madame Grignan. 



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A FTER this, he (the Interpreter) led them into his Garden, 



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(1628-1688). where was great Variety of Flowers : And he said, Do you see 



all these ? So Christian said, Yes. Then said he again, Behold 

 the Flowers are divers in Stature, in Quality, and Colour, and 

 Smell, and Virtue ; and some are better than some : Also 

 where the Gardener hath set them, there they stand, and 

 quarrel not one with another. . . . When the Interpreter had 

 done, he takes them out into his Garden again, and had them 

 to a Tree, whose inside was all rotten and gone, and yet it 

 grew and had leaves. Then said Mercy > What means this? 

 This Tree, said he, whose Outside is fair and whose Inside 

 is rotten, it is, to which may be compared, that are in the 

 Garden of God : Who with their Mouths speak high in Be- 

 half of God, but in deed will do nothing for him; whose 

 Leaves are fair, but their Hearts good for nothing but to be 

 Tinder for the Devil's Tinder-Box. The Pilgrim's Progress. 



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JOHN RAY One of the founders of modern Zoology and Botany : originally Greek Lecturer 

 (i627-i7S)' &t Cambridge, where he was Fellow of Trinity with. Sir Isaac Newton. He 

 ptiblished in 1660 A Catalogiie of Plants around that town, and in 1673 

 ' Observations made in a Journey through the Low Countries, Germany, 

 Italy and France," 1 giving information of animals and plants seen dtiring three 

 years. 1667, elected Fellow of Royal Society. 1682, " Methodus Plantarum 

 nova" as altered by himself , formed the basis of the System of Jussiett received 

 at present day. 1670, his ' Catalogus Plantariim Anglice,' the basis of all sub- 

 sequent Floras of this Country. 1686, his Historia Plantarum (Vol. I. 

 appeared) ; made many researches in Vegetable Physiology. 



Cuvier states, he was the model of the Systematists during the whole of the 

 \%th Centiiry ( Whewell). Ray meditated a work to be entitled " Horti Anglia." 

 See his Letters. (Daines Barrington). 



UT whether there be such a constant circulation of the Sap 

 in Plants as there is of the blood in Animals, as they would 

 from hence infer, there is some reason to doubt. 



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