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EXPLANATION OF THE PICTURESQUE PLATES. 



Milton has given us a fine description of the most perfect garden. 



Through Eden went a river large, 



Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggy hill 

 Pass'd underneath ingulph'd, for God had thrown 

 That mountain as this garden mound, high rais d 



Upon the rapid current 



from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks 



Rolling on orient pearl, and sands of gold, 



With mazy error under pendent shades, 



Ran fruitfulness, visiting each plant. 



Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art 



In beds and curious knots, but Nature s boon 



Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, 



Both where the morning sun first warmly smote 



The open field, and where the unpierc'd shade 



Imbrownd the noon-tide bow'rs. — Thus was this place 



A happy seat of various view 



So in our picturesque botanical plates the reader must not expect to see yew trees 

 cut into various forms, long avenues of upright timber, gravel-walks meeting to some circular 

 bason of water, or a cascade playing its forced part, statues stationed at the four corners of a 

 smooth carpet of turf, labyrinths, boats on the water fashioned like a swan, cards to keep the 

 calyxes from bursting, upright sticks, and regular disposition, that place where Leisure 



" In trim garden takes his pleasure? 



But each scenery is appropriated to the subject. Thus in the nighi-blounng Cf.rf.us you have 

 fhe moon 3 .*■*#* - 'he turret-clock points XII. the hour at n,ght 

 when this flower is in its full expanse. In the large-Jlowering Mimosa, first discovered on the 

 mountains of Jamaica, you haye the humming birds of that country, and one of the aborigines 

 Tuck with astonishment at the peculiarities of the plant. In .he M U ly A-"^*""* 

 the shade it delights in, with a sky whose clouds yet contain snow within then bosom. In he 

 nlrrZ leaved Kalmia, which comes forth under the same zone, but at an earher season, the 

 luntabs are still covered with their fleecy mantle. The nodding Rehealmia, on the con- 

 Z h a wal sky, and cocoa-nut trees skirt the distant scenery. The Auricula ,s repre- 

 ente'd as flomishing o n Alpine mountains, when the utility of their banner becomes conspicuous. 

 lit no„ECATHEON of Amman, Cowsl.p, a sea view is given, and a vessel bearing a flag 

 of that c Zy th^me is shewn by a butterfly in the plates of the .W^W Beook.a; 

 Id the Z& Hhopooenorok. In the Chinese Limoiioron, and the Indun, Canka, are 

 and the nine bh»» Tulips and Hyacinths are placed in Holland, 



represented the pagodas of _the East The 1 ^ Th(j Al0£ erec , s _ 



^rn^E^ESM «- '.eight and shape of the whole plan, 

 ,„ contrast, its stately torn, am g Stapelia you will find represented 



ma y be seen in the back-ground. In he ,. ,aggo, g ; ^ ^ 



. green African snake, and a ^Mow-fly » £ £ rfde > S J gg ^ ^ - 



magg „ts produced from this cause. h^lo ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 



sombre about the dragon Arum 'l^W to relieve the flower, there is a break, pre- 

 a dark back-ground was oblige d to be . oihoeed ^ ^ ^ .^ .„ , ^ 



senting to the view a emple te4 £"* * ^ p . 1|ars _ ^.^ (o 



Hence the several species <* *""££ rf the tablc race are carefully dissected, it is 



thus endeavoured to unite the ^ ^ „ 



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