rality of its possessors. “Botany, of course, 
was doomed to share the fate of all other 
sciences. But how contrary is such a spirit 
to the obvious end of the benign Creator in 
His beautiful productions, namely, that they 
might be a delight to all His rational crea- 
tures, and not that they should be locked 
up by the ever-griping fist of avarice. 
Plants are originally found in those spots 
alone which have not been cultivated by 
man, but which lie open to all, inviting 
every one to partake and to enjoy. The 
desire then of engrossing the whole of a 
particular species, in order, by the destruc- 
tion of a great part, to render what is left 
scarce, is surely the diseased and monstrous 
taste of a mind vitiated by the most selfish 
and contemptible meanness. 
