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BIRD CHERRY.— PADUS. 



Natural order, Pomacece. Rosacece, Juss. A 

 genus of the Icosandria Monogynia class. 



" Check the progress of thy vasty toil : 



First choose thy objects from thy native soil, 

 Where, daily seen, they own thee for their lord, 

 And, born with thee, shall greater joy afford." 



Delille. 



This aboriginal of our woods possesses 

 beauties that should oftener secure it a situa- 

 tion in the shrubbery, and more frequently a 

 place in ornamental hedge rows; for at the 

 present day it is more uncommon in our 

 plantations than the flowering shrubs of Per- 

 sia, China, or America. Let us not, in our 

 admiration of exotic beauties, and love of 

 foreign talent, neglect our native plants, or 

 impoverish our national abilities. Too often 

 we see the well educated daughter of an 

 English clergyman, neglectedly drudging 

 through the yearly duties of a governess for 

 the paltry pittance of twenty pounds, whilst 

 the daughter of a Swiss peasant or a Parisian 

 perriwig-maker is caressed and rewarded 

 with from five to ten times the sum. 



