Among the improvements of this aspiring age, none 
have been greater than those which have taken place 
in gardening, but it ever has been an occupation highly 
esteemed by people of cultivated taste. 
It is a pleasure not confined to the wealthy, but is 
an employment and profession for which no man is 
too high, or too low* The interest which flowers have 
excited in the breast of man, from the earliest ages to 
the present day, has never been confined to any partic¬ 
ular class of society, or quarter of the globe. Nature 
seems to have distributed them over the whole world, 
to serve as a medicine to the mind, to give cheerful¬ 
ness to the earth, and to furnish agreeable sensations 
to its inhabitants. The savage of the forest, in the joy 
of his heart, binds his brow with the native flowers of 
the woods, whilst a taste for their cultivation increases 
in every country in proportion as the blessings of civ¬ 
ilization extend. Love for a garden has a powerful 
influence in attracting men to their homes; and 
on this account, every encouragement given to in¬ 
crease a taste for ornamental gardening is additional 
security for domestic comfort and happiness. It is 
