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renders it partly unnecessary for me to attempt 

 saying any thing in its favour. I shall however 

 give a few reasons why it is so recommendable, 

 previous to the rules necessary to the good ma- 

 nagement of such departments. 



In the cultivation of hot-house and green- 

 house plants, as well as in all other branches of 

 ornamental gardening, the nearer we assimilate 

 art to nature the more pleasure we receive from 

 the result of our labours, and the art employed 

 is thereby proved to be more perfect. 



Plants growing in the conservatory fashion, 

 by their unconfined luxuriant habit, have a 

 much more natural appearance than when 

 growing in pots, forming as it were a wood in 

 miniature, of the most rare and beautiful pro- 

 ductions of foreign climes : productions which, 

 when properly managed, far exceed in delicacy 

 and elegance any thing ours will produce. 

 (Though for the honour of our Islands I may 

 add, that they perhaps produce articles of as 

 much, if not more general utility), besides 

 having a strong vigorous growth, which could 

 not well be expected from them in pots, they 

 consequently produce their flowers with more 

 elegance, and much greater abundance : which 



