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POPULAE ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



immense labour in tropical forests and transported at im- 

 mense cost to our shores? Look again at the dingy 

 madder^ munjeet, and yellow-berries^ and who could 

 imagine that the bright charming colours produced to 

 please the eye of taste are drawn from such sources ? Once 

 more^ look at the rock-weed^ without an appearance of 

 colour beyond a dirty drab tint^ yielding nevertheless a 

 purple fit for the adornment of princes. How true it is 

 that industry works its own reward^ and that the Creator 

 has. given to man an inexhaustible treasury from which he 

 may draw all that his wants and luxuries require ; exacting 

 only in return — lalour — as the penalty of the first trans- 

 gression. 



