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with marigolds ; and close at hand is the flower-knot, with its balm 
and heartsease, and dark single warriors from orient lands, breathing 
forth perfume. 
Here the tall hollyhock, "outlandish rose," laughs in the pride of 
summer, whilst at its foot true love lies bleeding. Near the wicket 
is a sweetbriar ; in yonder corner a lavender bush ; and here is the 
rose of a hundred petals. This protecting hedge has been deftly 
wattled over and over again by "the rude forefathers of the ham- 
let;" its steep sides are clothed in green tapestry — an ivy mantle 
soft and deep — the interlacings of a hundred years ; and through 
this thick tangle, as we have often seen, the pure snowdrop lifts its 
gentle head in early spring, and high above all, in sultry summer, 
" The creeping honeysuckle weaves 
Its yellow flowers and verdant leaves." 
Where are the long-drawn vistas of your classic parterre by the 
side of this humble paradise ? 
Why it is a charmed circle, of which the green hedge-bank is at 
once the guardian, the boundary, and the talisman. 
One word for the Devonshire lanes. They were so bad in the 
reign of Elizabeth that Sir Walter Ealeigh declares, in one of his 
reports, that ordnance could not be drawn by horses from Exeter 
to Plymouth. 
MIND AND CONSCIENCE IN OUE POOE 
EELATIONS. 
ABSTEACT OF REV. W. SHARMAN's PAPER. 
(Read October 26th, 1876.) 
The lecturer said, the poor relations about whom he was going to 
speak were the lower animals. The lowest organization of which 
they could confidently say, "It has life" shared with them, in its 
own degree, the possession of that regnant force which all other 
forces served, and which must be for ever the ultimate problem of 
science. In all sentient being they saw that which said to 
philosophy, " Thus far, and no farther." Carl Schmidt, the 
distinguished German evolutionist, did indeed assert that con- 
sciousness might be an attribute of matter, or might appertain to 
