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THE STEAWBERBY. 



it embellislies ; when we contemplate how it is pre- 

 served during a winter's cold, capable of cleaving 

 stones— how it appears verdant in the spring, without 

 any pains employed to preserve it from frost and snow 

 — how, feeble and trailing along the ground, it should 

 be able to migrate from the deepest valleys to Alpine 

 heights— to traverse the globe from north to south, 

 from mountain to mountain, forming, on its passage 

 over prairie and plain, a thousand mingled patches of 

 checker-work of its fair flowers and scarlet or rose- 

 colored fruit, with the plants of every chme---how it 

 has been able to scatter itself from the mountains of 

 Cashmere to Archangel^ from Kamschatka to Spain — 

 how, in a word, we find it in equal abundance on the 

 continent of America, from the bleak fields of Tierra 

 del Fuego to Oregon and Hudson's Bay, thou-gh 

 myriads of animals are making incessant and universal 

 havoc upon it, yet nc gardener is necessary to sow it 

 again — we are struck with wonder and admiration at 

 60 precious a gift," 



