No. 1031. 
POTENTILLA NAPALENSIS. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
from our friend Mr. M‘Nab, of the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Garden, who first raised it 
from seeds sent to him by Dr. Wallich, of 
Calcutta. It is a hardy perennial, and 
thrives very well either in a pot or in the 
full ground, in any good garden soil. It 
may be increased by seeds, which ripen in 
this country. 
After attentively considering such a beau- 
tiful plant as this, formed by the hand of 
Infinite Goodness, for the purpose of afford- 
ing us pleasure and delight, can we enter- 
tain hard and distant thoughts of our 
blessed God? can we for a moment think 
that He would command any thing but that 
which was for our real good? shall we not 
indeed rather, like David, make haste and 
delay not to keep His commandments, 
saying with him, “ How sweet are Thy 
words unto my faste, yea, sweeter than 
honey to my mouth. Through Thy precepts 
I get understanding ; therefore I hate every 
false way!!!” 
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