Amid her shapes minute while others pry, 



Scanning the myriads on the herbs' green top, 



Or mark intent, with microscopic eye, 



The monsters writhing in the liquid drop; 



Advent'rous Banks! * her bolder march pursues, 

 Through the rude desert, and the billowy storm, 



And 'mid the elemental conflict views 

 The mighty wonders of her awful form. 



Now 'mid the rigour of antarctic frost, 



Where the chill stream of life scarce keeps its way; 

 Now where the day-star on the sultry coast 



At noon-tide sheds th' insufferable ray ; 



Uncheck'd by danger, unsubdu'd by toil, 



He climbs where mountains rise on mountains roll'd, 



Nor seeks the ores that glow beneath the soil, 

 But " views the mine without a wish for gold." 



His pride, on every land, in every clime, 



^ From the low shrub that clothes the arid plain, 

 To where the cedar waves her boughs sublime, 

 Careful to trace the vegetable reign. 



Crown of his labours! this imperial flower, 

 Wafted from burning Afric's rugged scene, 



'Neath Britain's better skies, in happier hour, 

 Enjoys the patronage of Britain's Queen! 



Grac'd by her Name,\ its shining petals boast 

 Above the rest to charm her favouring eyes, 



Though Flora brings from every clime her host 

 Of various odours and of varied dyes.^; 



While Royal Nymphs,§ fair as the Oreade race 

 Who trod Eurota's brink, or Cynthus' brow, 



Snatch from the wreck of time each fleeting grace, 

 And bid its leaves with bloom perennial glow ! 



James Henry Pye. 



a nH*J hC Righ fl H ° n ) 7" e J ,OSE " B " K went with Ca P*in Cook round the world, in order to explore the seenes of natnre, 

 and has since flounshed the Maecenas of Botany and Natural History, which may be compared to a very tender plant, requiring the 

 fostering aid of rich individua s, who employ their suh«t!in<v> ««* i„ ™ m „ a ■ .... F"»"» icqumng me 



™* ,„ „♦ if « r u r Z ■> lneir SUDstanc e» not in pomp and vain amusements, but in the better pursuit of knowledge 



and an eternal fame « I have often," says the elegant St. Pierre, « been astonished at our indifference respecting the applau e of 

 those who have introduced useful plants into their country, the sight or fruit of which are to this day so delightful, The names of these 

 public benefactors are chiefly unknot, whilst their benefits pass from generation to generation: whereas those of the deZyerfof the 

 human race are handed down to us in every page, as if we took more account of our enemies than of our friends. The andents did not 



Sztl? in b. way - irt observes that ceres and bacchus - wh ° ™* »<**> « m * ^ «* <* <** ?™ "£ t*£ 



sal and lasting blessings, wh.ch they procured to mankind: whereas Hekcux.es, Theseus, and other Heroes, rose only to the rank of 

 denu-god, their good achievements being but of a temporary and partial nature. Pliny, the great Roman natural st fnforms us with 

 no small degree of exultation, that of the eight species of cherries known in Italy in his time, one was styled pS» after Z name of 



fwenty years over all Enrol Fnl . Che ry Trees into Italy, from whence they were propagated in less than an hundred and 



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