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life-time. I will not assume the merit of discovering this virgin 

 scene ; it was shewn me by a virtuous and amiable mother, who 

 often used to retire thither to mourn the loss of a much-loved 

 daughter, and who felt herself consoled by its effects. 



2. Tlants, grasses, and low growths, which may be used to give 

 intricacy to fore~ground$, broken ground, margins of water, or 

 abruptnesses ; or to give wildness to parks, thickets, &c. are va- 

 rious. They may be divided into three classes, those for po- 

 lished ground, those for water, and those for rough ground. — 

 1. Those proper for producing intricacy, for broken ground or 

 margms of water in polished scenery where no cattle are admitted, 

 may often, and should generally be,, exotic shrubs, flowers, and 

 creepers, such as rhododendron, rosa, arbutus phyleria, rheum 

 solidago, &c. of different species for the larger sorts ; vinca^ 

 cistus, andromeda, erica, &e. (properly shrubs) for smaller 

 sorts ; while the cherianthus, Valeriana, iris, aster, orobus, and 

 many others, form every intermediate gradation in shape, mag- 

 nitude, colour, and time of flowering, &c. and answer every 

 soil, from the antirhinum major and wall-flower, which suit de- 

 caying ruins,, to the iris, pecud acorus, or the camarum palustre, 

 which grows in the softest marshes or watery meadows. 2. Those 

 which naturally grow in water, are numerous, and suited to 

 the character which the water assumes, its depth, quality of 

 the soil, &c. Several species of the pontamogetons, water par- 



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