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they have exhibited in one body all the 

 hard names of the Linnoean system * ; but 

 when as many different plants as can well 

 be got together, are exhibited in every 

 shrubbery, or in every plantation, the re- 

 sult is a sameness of a different kind, but 

 not less truly a sameness, than would arise 

 from there being no diversity at all ; for 

 there is no having variety of character, 

 without a certain distinctness, without cer- 

 tain marked features on which the eye can 

 dwell. 



In forests and woody commons, we some- 

 times come from a part where hollies had 



chiefly prevailed, to another where junipers 



* In a botanical light, such a collection is extremely 

 curious and entertaining; but it is about as good a spe- 

 cimen of variety in landscape, as a line of Lilly's gram- 

 mar would be of variety in poetry : 



Et postis, Vectis, vermis socielur et zr:\<. 



A collection of hardy exotics may also be considered as 

 a very valuable part of the improver's pallet, and may sug- 

 gest many new and harmonious combinations of colour-- : 

 but then he must not call the pullet a picture. 



