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morus multicaulis? Oh I no, he exclaimed^ only 

 beautiful flowers and roses for you.^ Alas! simple 

 youth, this answer was fatal to his hopes, and the 

 morus multicaulis prevailed over love. Horticulture, 

 in addition to this, is colonizing trees and shrubs, 

 for the purposes of shade and ornament for the 

 bowers of love. — Should it not then command the 

 affections and aid of the fair? 



There are finally to be drawn from the reflections 

 of this anniversary, many lessons and benefits, calcu- 

 lated to warm the heart with gratitude to Him, who 

 is the giver of all things; and above all, there are 

 opened, by the study of this volume of nature, 

 sources of unfailing joy and contentment. So order- 

 ed is the economy and wisdom of heaven, that this 

 lovely season of the year, — the precursor of Ceres, 

 and the prophet of abundant harvest, by its regular 

 return teaches ^desultory man, studious as he is, of 

 change,' that here is an invariable and immutable law, 

 stamped upon every plant that grows, and every bud 

 that opens, alike incapable of change and deteriora- 

 tion, and instructs the child of adversity, who has 

 been left alone, scathed like the pine upon the moun- 

 tain's top, by the lightning and the tempest, that there 

 is a recuperative principle in the mind, shadowed 

 forth most beautifully by the reviving tree and the 

 budding flower, which the breath of heaven shall 

 awaken to life^ beatdy, and immortality. — Emblems 

 of the christian's hope, which burns brighter as the 



