ness of holiness % and reddens the rose with the blush of .modesty and the flush of 
healthfulness. 
Casting but a bird’s-eye-view over this broad, favored expanse of beauty, 
and there will loom up before and around you the Forest primeval, with its 
giant monarchs, as in Brazil and on the Pacific Coast, or of later date, with royal 
oak and queenly maple, and dense underwood, with occasional sky-light gleams 
of sun or stars; the deep-shadowing grove and the lightsome everglade; the 
thickly wooded hill and mountain, the gently sloping lawn, carpeted with velvety 
verdure, and the garniture of waving fields ; the teeming orchards and the heavy- 
clustered vineyards, with leafy shields. Yonder, will break upon your enraptured 
sight those sylvan bowers, that well-trimmed copse with neighboring glebeland, 
this massive foliage of shade-tree and hedgerow; and hitherward, dotting the 
long stretches of eye-refreshing greensward, smooth or tufted, these innumerable 
sprightly herb-growths, yet bare or full-yielding. On every side you will behold 
multitudinous large or limited garden-spots, whether of man’s industrious and 
artistic labor or of spontaneous Nature’s superior handiwork and indefinitely 
more potent energy; and there, see the verdant shoot, the bursting bud, the flores- 
cent bourgeon, the tendrilled climber, the many-hued flower in radiant gladness, 
the fruit-tree blossom, the shrub-bloom—all joys forever, at least, in Fancy’s mir¬ 
ror. And again, all this pleasing prospect may be witnessed, to a degree, in season 
and out of season, night, noon and morning; now, amid spring-time’s cheering 
prophecies, in sprout and spray and leaflet; then, through summertide’s tranquil 
glow of contenting promise; anon, in autumn’s plenteous doweries of variegated 
leaf, and tempting fruit, and golden harvest—the whole vividly painting an ever- 
unrolling panorama that far surpasses—especially at set of sun—the strange 
phantasmagoria of grandest Kaleidoscope or the most fanciful perceptions of 
Oriental dreamland. 
Botany rightfully lays under summoning tribute the whole huge Globe 
and its encompassing depths of waters; and, hence, again and again, it holds up 
Nature’s munificent floral and vegetable gifts, contributed from all regions: here, 
liberally scattered by the wayside; there, basking in the sunlight, bedecking open 
world and clearing wood; here, rejoicing along the banks of babbling brooks; 
there, sparkling on upland and lowland, on mossy mound and in meadow downs, 
on terrace and in parterre; now, vigorously growing in shade or shine; then, con¬ 
tending against untoward elements and a resisting mold, in many a struggling 
clime, from the upmost timber-belt, the highest line of hardy vegetation around 
snow-capped peaks— 
