The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the OpenGround, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented intheir natural Colours.
Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according tothe celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, and Times ofFlowering:
Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, andGardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with thePlants they cultivate.
Author of the Flora Londinensis.
———————"nor thou disdain |
To check the lawless riot of the trees, |
To plant the grove, or turn the barren mould |
Oh happy he, whom, when his years decline, |
(His fortune and his fame by worthy means |
Attain'd, and equal to his mod'rate mind; |
His life approv'd by all the wise and good, |
Even envy'd by the vain) the peaceful groves |
Of Epicurus, from this stormy world |
Hereine in rest; of all ungrateful cares |
Absolv'd, and sacred from the selfish crowd. |
Happiest of men I if the same soil invites |
A chosen few, companions of his youth, |
Once fellow-rakes perhaps now rural friends; |
With whom in easy commerce to pursue |
Nature's free charms, and vie for Sylvan fame |
A fair ambition; void of strife, or guile, |
Or jealousy, or pain to be outdone. |
Who plans th'enchanted garden, who directs |
The visto best, and best conducts the stream; |
Whose groves the fastest thicken, and ascend; |
Whom first the welcome spring salutes; who shews |
The earliest bloom, the sweetest proudest charms |
Of Flora; who best gives Pomona's juice |
To match the sprightly genius of Champain." |
ARMSTRONG. |
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