CONTENTS. xi 



PAGE 

 LETTER XXVIII. 



The Kpe and the Snuff-box ■ 180 



LETTER XXIX. 

 Quasi Apiarian J84 



LETTER XXX. 

 Beea 190 



LETTER XXXI. 

 Virgil again — The Hyacinth — I'he Lartspur 199 



LETTER XXXII. 

 False Gods 203 



LETTER XXXIII. 

 The Mantis— The Orchis— The Gall Insect— Cochineal— Value of 



Scarlet 207 



LETTER XXXIV. 

 The little Causes of great Events — The Fraxinella — The Nigella — 



Pinks 211 



LETTER XXXV. 

 The enriched "Waodman 216 



LETTER XXXVI. 

 Fennel — The encroaching Visitor 218 



LETTER XXXVII. 

 The encroaching Visitor 225 



LETTER XXXVIII. 

 Wonders of Travel — Scientific Nomenclature 228 



LETTER XXXIX. 

 wad Flowers in Gardens— The Shower 232 



LETTER XL. 

 After the Shower 233 



LETTER XLl 

 The Clothes Moth— An incredulous Man does not helieve in the Sausage- 

 tree 239 



LETTER XLII. 

 Flax— The discomfited Florists 246 



LETTER XLIIl. 

 A Modem Deity— A Philosophical and Theological History of Hemp 

 and Flax, with their various Fortunes from their Birth to their 

 Apotheosis 252 



