FERN PINE, OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
of vegetable fecundity, still remain to be sci- 
entifically described, by an accurate attention 
to their progressive growth, in the various 
periods of tlieir foliage, flowering, fru6lifica- 
tion, &C. from an observation of all which, in 
the respe6live living plants, we can alone de- 
rive a due knowledge of their nature and uti- 
lity. In tliis imperfe6l state of our acquaint- 
ance with such articles, it is at least some sa- 
tisfaclion to present general appearances, as 
they attra6led the attention of an ingenious 
artist, who has faithfully represented what he 
beheld. From this source, we have much of 
novelty to present the eye; but we can boast of 
but little information for the scientific mind, 
which must wait the enlarged developement of 
Time. Some present gratification, however, 
we may reasonably presume, will result even 
to the most enlightened botanist, on viewing 
plants different from any he has before seen, 
all drawn from sources of undoubted authen- 
ticity, and delineated on the spot where they 
grew ; who will thus in som.e degree anticipate 
that pleasure, which he may expe61: is, at no 
very remote period, to be augmented by frui- 
tion. 
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