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of their green vestments, and the landscape that filled 

 the eye with beauty, presents a barren and leafless 

 waste ; nature has done its work, and the reward for 

 the toil of the husbandman has been gathered into the 

 garner for the support of all God's creation. From the 

 past, our intelligence becomes enlarged to develope a 

 brighter and more hopeful future; new discoveries 

 have been made by chemical appliances, for fertilising 

 the soil, and new inventions in mechanics, have tended 

 to lighten the burdens, and labor of the agriculturist ; 

 and horticulture has presented its claims in the great 

 work of progression ; new specimens of plants and 

 flowers have added their beauty to the already brilliant 

 gallaxy, that are so grateful to our senses, and so 

 necessary for our happiness ; still with all their array, 

 and most endless varieties, our productions are but in 

 their infancy ; a wild and imcultivated waste is still 

 before us, and it remains for our science to beautify 

 and adorn, and every new specimen that is discovered 

 by the genius of the cultivator, tends to lessen the 

 work to b,e accomplished ; and we rejoice that an en- 

 larged taste is pervading through all classes of society, 

 to produce a more perfect, and truthful field of beauty ; 

 new societies are constantly organising, and new ele- 

 ments are uniting, in making great, and untried dis- 

 coveries. The extremes of north and south, havb lost 

 their measured distance, by the invincible speed pro- 

 duced by motive power, and already the genius of the 

 sunny south is in communion with the more rugged 

 north. In the great work of development and pro- 



