AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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thy plant of this proscribed genus in full bloom, 

 the wild bees buzzing in delight around it, or alight- 

 ing to extract its honey. The plants, indeed, which 

 we consider as weeds, whatever natural charms they 

 may possess, offend the eye when we see them grow- 

 ing in a garden, or amidst cultivated fields, because 

 they are then associated in our minds with the noxi- 

 ous effects they have on the crop. But when they 

 fall under our notice in places which are beyond the 

 province of the plough or the spade, such as the 

 moor or the forest, where there is nothing in their 

 vicinity to which they can be productive of harm, all 

 our prejudices against them vanish, and our eyes be- 

 come open to their beauty. At the risk, therefore, of 

 exciting the mirth of many a knowing forester at my 

 own expense, I recommend the above mentioned 

 weeds, as well as all others which have any thing 

 agreeable, either in the shape and verdure of their 

 leaves, or hue of their flowers, as highly proper for 

 adorning woodland. Weeds though they be, na- 

 ture has not planted them indiscriminately in every 

 place, and a little pains and attention might be 

 worse expended than in propagating them, when we 

 wish to add beauty to a plantation. 



Most of the plants now mentioned will be proper, 

 though the principal object be not ornament, but 



