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SECT. XXXV. 
ON THE NATURALIZATION OF PLANTS. 
The vegetable world, each plant and tree, 
Its seed, its name, its nature, its degree, 
I’m allow’d, as Fame reports, to know; 
From the fair cedar on the craggy brow 
Of Lebanon nodding supremely tall, 
The creeping moss, and hyssop on the wall; 
Yet, just, and conscious to myself, I find, 
A thousand doubts oppose the searching mind. 
I know not why the beech delights the glade, 
With boughs extended and a rounder shade; 
Whilst tow’ringj^rs in conic forms arise, 
And with a pointed spear divide the skies; 
Nor why, again, the changing oak should shed 
The yearly honour of his stately head; 
Whilst the distinguish’d yew is ever seen, 
Unchang’d his branch, and permanent his green. 
Wanting the sun why does the caltha fade? 
Why does the cypress flourish in the shade? 
The fig and date, why love they to remain 
In middle station, and an even plain; 
While in the lower marsh the gourd is found. 
And while the hill with olive- shade is crown’d? 
Why does one climate and one soil endue 
The blushing poppy with a crimson hue, 
Yet leave the lily pale, and tinge the violet blue? 
Why does the fond carnation lore to shoot 
A various colour from one parent root; 
While the fantastic tulip strives to break 
In two-fold beauty and a parted streak ? 
The twining jasmine, and the blushing rose, 
With lavish grace their morning scents disclose; 
The smelling tub'rose and jonquil declare. 
The stronger impulse of an evening air. 
Whence has the tree (resolve me) or the flow'r, 
A various instinct or a different pow'r ? 
Why should one earth, one clime, one stream, one breath , 
Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death ? 
Prior’s Solomon. 
Corn, which serves for the general subsistence of the Iranian, race, is 
not produced by vegetables of a lofty stature, but by simple grasses. The 
principal support of human life is borne 
mercy of every breath of wind. There is reason to believe, that had we 
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