Let  him  who  is  engaged  in  the  racking  cares  of  commerce,  say
in  what  frame  of  mind  his  eyes  close  in  sleep,  and  what  are  the
anxieties  of  his  waking  hours.    Let  the  manufisicturer  tell  of  his


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Feyerish  dreams  by  night,  and  his  dyspeptic  symptoms  by  day.
Let  the  literary  man  expose  the  ills  to  which  the  studious  are
iabie  from  lassitude  of  body  and  irritation  of  mind.  Let  the
professional  man  descant  on  unjust  preferences,  and  on  the  tar-
liness  of  rewards.  Let  the  artist  speak  of  envy,  jealousy,  and
Krant  of  patronage.  Let  science,  too,  open  the  laboratory,  and
rfiow  the  hydra  with  which  she  has  to  contend.  Trace  them
ill  through  their  labours,  their  pleasures,  and  their  perils ;  pursue
them  through  crowded  streets,  the  deleterious  effluvia  of  gut-
ters, the  propinquity  of  vice,  the  contagion  of  diseases,  the
ringing  of  fire  bells,  ofial  carts,  banks^  hose  companies,  ex-
change offices,  eating  houses,  omnibus  stages,  and,  worst  of  all,
idle  children  !  Look  at  all  this — follow  these  men — look  at  their
iaily  walks  and  occupations — and  then  turn  to  the  horticulturist.
