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so that cut over plants are found in a few years to outstrip those 

 left uncut in an immense degree, and very soon to double their 

 bulk. Besides the vital force there is instinct, which Cuvier, 

 likens to a constant dream of the imagination, and Miiller thinks 

 connected with life by the idea or imagination, which furnishes 

 to vitality the picture of the structure to be formed. Imagina- 

 tion or instinct, as we ascend in the class of animals, is found 

 connected with reason, where it has been disputed that such 

 exists. In their deviation from their usual instinctive manner 

 of performing their actions, in the dreaming of dogs, &c., we 

 perceive the approach to reason, which in man reaches the highest 

 grade we are conversant with. That the imagination is distinct 

 from the reason, however, we perceive, when we feel our ima- 

 gination acted on in a way we cannot account for, unless by 

 psychological agency. Pictures are presented to the imagination 

 which we had never before seen, of any train of ideas leading to 

 which we have no conception, and which we are constrained to 

 impute to psychological agency. We are thus led from matter 

 to mind, and from mind to spirit; from nature up to nature's 

 God. 



( To he continued. ) 



Art. II. The Principles of Landscape- Gardening and of Landscape- 

 Arcliitecture applied to the Laying out of Public Cemeteries and 

 the Lnprovement of Churchyards ; including Observations on the 

 Working and General Management of Cemeteries and Burial- 

 Grounds. By the Conductor. 



{Continued from p. 164.) 



III. The Working and Management of Cemeteries. 



By the working and management of cemeteries are to be understood the rules 

 and regulations respecting interments, monuments, planting, &c., the fees to 

 be taken, and the books to be kept by the clerk or sexton. Previously to 

 the establishment of large cemeteries there were scarcely any rules or regu- 

 lations for the guidance of the sexton, and hence the irregularities that were 

 continually occurring in burying-grounds : such as graves opened in some 

 parts of the ground in which interments had recently been made, in order to 

 gratify the wishes of the deceased, who had, perhaps, fixed on a particular 

 spot; while other parts of the grounds were comparatively without graves. 

 Had there been an established rule, that no ground in which an interment 

 had been made should be opened so long as there was any fresh ground to 

 bury in, such anomalies could never have taken place, and there never 

 could have occurred what is now frequently to be met with, viz. ground 

 untouched in one corner of a churchyard, and a charnel or bone house at the 

 other. In every particular case there will probably be required some rules 

 and regulations peculiar to the localit}', and some which are everywhere ap- 

 plicable. We shall only enumerate such rules and regulations as we think 

 ought to be general. 



The most important rules respecting a place of burial must necessarily be 

 those which have reference to the sacredness of the place, the security from 



