OH, PLAIN TEACHING. 



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THE lARDEE 



716. 



How many are there who talk 

 of the "beauties of the garden," 

 and yet are unacquainted with 

 what they should observe, to add 

 spirit and meaning to the beauti- 

 ful objects which they see. The 

 principles of vegetation; the de- 

 tails of the peculiar forms of 

 leaves, and the characteristic 

 diversities in the ramifications of 

 trees, explained in our previous 

 chapters (page 193), will already 

 have contributed much to the 

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need of such persons ; and they 

 may now regard a root, a branch, 

 a leaf, a perfect plant, with in- 

 creased interest. Let us, in 

 making a brief tour of our gar- 

 den, examine the various points 

 of interest in connection with 

 flowers — those beautiful things 

 that, from childhood to mature 

 age, are among our most pleasing- 

 associations. 



If we gather a flower, and 

 proceed to pull it to pieces, we 



