Vegetable Pathology. S95 



not; I hardly think you will publish it, but you must use 

 your own discretion. Whether you publish, mutilate, or 

 destroy it, is but of little consequence to 



Your very humble servant, 



J. HoRSEFIELD. 



Pilkington, near Manchester, December 14-. 1829. 



We shall be happy to receive from Mr. Horsefield accounts 

 of the other societies to which he alludes, and are much gra- 

 tified at the proof he has here given of the taste for, and know- 

 ledge of, botany, which exist among the weavers of Lancashire. 

 We are still more gratified at the evidences which some of 

 these operative manufacturers have afforded, at recent public 

 meetings, of sound political knowledge and good moral con- 

 duct, and of their determination to persevere in their endea- 

 vours to obtain political reform. Whatever be the kind of 

 knowledge which a man may find it necessary or desirable to 

 obtain for his own private use or gratification, he ought always 

 to join with it a knowledge of politics and political economy ; 

 in order that he may clearly understand his rights as a man 

 and a citizen, the precise point to which his country has 

 attained in civilisation and happiness with reference to other 

 countries, and the political and moral improvement of which 

 it may be susceptible. Having ascertained these things, it 

 then becomes his duty to cooperate with his fellow-men, in 

 every lawful, honest, and peaceable means, in bettering their 

 condition. — Cond. 



Art. III. Vegetable Pathology. By a Warwickshire 

 Naturalist. 



Natural History is a study no less amusing than instruct- 

 ive. It extends the bounds of knowledge into regions which, 

 though long in sight, yet have remained unexplored and 

 neglected ; and, while we have been seeking for objects of 

 interest in distant climes, we have overlooked or despised the 

 wonders of creation within our reach at home. 



The eager search after truth, in these days of restless 

 enquiry, has redeemed the supineness of former times ; and 

 that heavenly fruit, which has so long hung on the tree of 

 knowledge within the reach of the philosopher only, has 

 been freely plucked by all who chose to gather it. Na- 

 ture has been wooed in her thousand forms, and pursued to 

 her thousand recesses ; and the path which led to her retreat, 



