. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . um than a sloe, and carries an apple to negreater perfection than a crab; that our melons, our peaches, oucfio-s, our apricots, and cherries, are strangers among us, imported isdifferent ages and naturalized in our English gardens; and that theywould degenerate and fall away into the trash of our own countryif they were wholly neglected by the planters and left to themercy of the sun and soil. Nor has traffic more enriched ourvegetable world than it has improved the whole face of Naturea
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . um than a sloe, and carries an apple to negreater perfection than a crab; that our melons, our peaches, oucfio-s, our apricots, and cherries, are strangers among us, imported isdifferent ages and naturalized in our English gardens; and that theywould degenerate and fall away into the trash of our own countryif they were wholly neglected by the planters and left to themercy of the sun and soil. Nor has traffic more enriched ourvegetable world than it has improved the whole face of Natureamono- us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every cli-mate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; oucrooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned withthe workmanship of Japan ; our morning draught comes to usfrom the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies bythe drills of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopiesMy friend, Sir Andrew, calls the vineyards of France our gardens;the Spice Islands our hot-beds; the Persians our silk-weavers; an* 2 S 2 ,.
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