10. 
Natural History, and was to that branch of knowl- 
edge what was Newton to Natural Philosophy, the 
regenerator of truth. Since his time, the vegetable 
kingdom has been minutely attended to and investi- 
gated, and from the important and patient labors of its 
numerous votaries have accrued immense benefits to 
the civilized world, in almost every department of 
human industry and skill. 
The necessity of a knowledge of Systematic and 
Physiological Botany to the Horticulturist, is almost 
too evident for demonstration. ‘The Botanical Gar- 
dener, and he alone, is the Theoretical Horticulturist. 
The taste for that science but seems to strengthen 
the passion for his profession. ‘The accuracy of its 
operations, and the necessity for the most minute 
investigation in the arrangement of plants, would 
serve to improve his own love for them. ‘To the 
Florist, particularly, is this observation of importance. 
The simplicity of Nature is overlooked in too many 
instances for the more gaudy and dazzling productions 
of art. Among the supposed treasures of collections, 
in vain may one seek for some species, till at length, 
disappointed in his search, he finds it under the dis- 
cuise of an anomalous character, in some mutilated 
hybrid, or monstrous development. Our floriculture 
needs thus a cautious but reforming hand; a substi- 
tution of some of that zeal for new and foreign ec- 
centricities of floral skill by a closer attention to the 
rich native treasures of our own smiling fields and 
verdant meadows, of our forest-clad mountains and 
limpid streams, and an endeavor to take a deeper 
interest in Nature, as she is. She recognizes, it is 
