SOO BOTANY. 



productions of the fields or gardens, he will find nothing 

 cloying, nothing affecting his passions, or causing those 

 unpleasant feelings so often excited by the works of art, 

 for truly as Lord Bacon observed, ' a garden is the purest 

 of all human pleasures ;' the wonderful variety evident 

 in the Botanical creation, in form, structure, colour, and 

 ceconomy, their powers of secretion of matter totally 

 different from that from which they draw their nutri- 

 ment; as Sugars, Salts, Acids, Bitters, &c. are all objects 

 of admiration, and powerfully bespeak the wisdom and 

 providence of their al,l-wise Creator. 



We annex the sketch of a Botanical register, of such par- 

 ticulars as should in all possible cases be obtained ; we have 

 done this without reference to any known species ; but 

 merely that the various particulars relative to the use to 

 which different species aje applicable, may not be omitted. 



