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MONGST the many pleasures 

 a townsman may locik foi- wln'ii 

 rambling through a country 

 village, the discovery of ex- 

 quisitely beautiful flowers in the 

 o-ardcns of humble cottagers 

 may be reckoned as of some 

 account. You have, perhaps, 

 been revelling for years amidst 

 bedding plants and stately trees, 

 and other fashionable and genteel 

 items of a proper garden. But 

 you have for a season quitted 

 these rural scenes to And rest in 

 things rustic, and in an idle 

 mood you lean upon a fence and 

 look over. Stars and planets ! 

 What a Ijlaze of flowers of sorts 

 unseen till now has this humble 

 horticulturist accumulated ! Here are masses of colour 

 that comj^el oue^s lip to curl with contempt for all 

 ordinary bedding, and combinations and features that 

 to the unaccustomed eye, well rested from the wear 

 and tear of town, appear to over-pass the reach of art. 



