Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-04-26
Iprom the New England Farmer.

az From the New England Farmer.
TuE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN CON-
PANIoy: Adapted TO the northern States.
by Edward Sayers, Landscape and Orna-
mental Gardener.
This is beautiful book, just issued from
the press, containing in a small compass
ample instructions for the cultivation OF fiow-
ers, and catalogues and directions for the Sc
lection Of varieties suited to the meridian OF
New York and Massachusetts,, and adapted
with variations to other States. A plan, full,
and well arranged I; and may be safely COM
mended to the patronage OF those who have
a taste for what indeed is most beautiful In
the Creators works.
The pleasures Of the eye are among the
most varied, the most abundant, the most
Impressive, the most instructive OF any OF the
senses we had almost said Of all the others
combined; and throughout universal nature
in all its departments and productions, cxter-
nal beauty is every where present and pre-.
dominant, that this sense might be cultivated
and gratiied, that the eye might be filled to
the full.
Il The cultivation of taste for the beautiful
in creation, is laying broad foundation for
innocent pleasures and moral devotion and
multiplying the instruments and excitements
to grateful piety. This taste, then, should
by every means be encouraged and improved
and it is impossible in this case that we
should go too far. II is impossible for us to
become too much in love with nature with
the beauty of the land, the ocean, the skies
the forests, the beasts, the birds, the insect
world, the flowers and the vast and ever
changing procession Of animal and vegeta'
bic lite, as it passes before us.
Al I'LL, ~taI la
| light every effort to cultivate and strengthen
this taste, and to lead men away from the
/ grovelng cares and wasting perp!exties oi
common life, to study nature in her vast
laboratory; and to mark the divine agency in
her every operation, and admire and adore
that beneficent prodigality of beauty, which
Is every where poured out around us.
Il We cannot forget the delight with which
the last season we visited the splendid tulip
| plantation Of distinguished cullivator in the
| vicinity Of Boston. This man is a fool, says
one, 10 spend his time and money in the cul-
tivalon of these paltry flowers But he was
a much greater fool who said it. We saw
in it the truest wisdom. What proiusor
and what an endless variety of beauty =
exquisite touch, and tnts, and coloring, ant
II ouuoVos w udt ohill, "h's "iotoWt WV"
bcnefcencc illuminated this simple and mar
row page of Gods earliest revelation, ant
were here concentrated in blaze Of glory
What source Of innocent and delightful
recreation 10 the cultvator, and what bene
faction to others in the pleasures which i
impaired.
II Away then with party politics which mad
den men TO frenzy and embitter all the
waters of life. Away with the miserable
sophistries and conceits and arrogancies o
controversial theology, which disturb the
temper, and narrow the mind, and nourish the
| pride, and infame the resentment Away
with wretched drudgery Of never-to be-
satisfied avaricc, which extinguishcs all ge-
ncrous and noble sentiments; and hardens
the heart like stone. Learn to love the purer
the heart-enlarging, the heart-improvine
/ pleasures of nature drink Of the crysta
waters of this cxhaustless fountain; and wor
| ship your Creator in this, his glorious temple
1 adore his goodness and perfection in the in
intely multiplied forms of beauty, whicl
every where crowd upon the sight; in th
snowdrop which first peeps above the groun'
to whisper to you that spring is coming, II
the rose, the queen of flowers, that sits upol
her lnossy throne and sheds her fragrance
upon your path, in the floating and COLDER
clouds which draw their glowing folds aroun'
the retiring monarch Of the day, and in tht
sparkling stars which watch their eternal
fires over your hours Of repose.-"See Goo
IN every thing and every thing in God"