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150 Pup. You have said tluat they are not only ornamental, but useful. Tut. Yes; flowers cheer the drooping, and refresh the wearied spirits: they yield us fruits and seeds, and particularly honey, oil, and wax, snuff, paint, medicine, &c. Pup. But some flowers have a disagreeable smell. Tut. They may thereby possibly correct or absorb the noxious vapours. They may serve for food to some animals and insects, or they may have some medicinal virtues. With all our boasted knowledge, we have not yet discovered all the excellent uses either of herbs or Pup. Theu I suppose there is noubing farther to be said on this subject. Tut. Yes, there is of:e thing more, which I wish you to remember. By these we learn the wisdom and goodness of God, and the folly of over-anxiety about ourselves. Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin ; 3:4 yet the richest king in all his glory cannot array himself iike one of these. Now if God so clothe the short-lived grass of the field, how much more will he feed and clothe us Pup. By what means are plants and flowers preserved and increased ? - Tut. Each plant produces a great quantity of seed, which preserves it to future generations. Some seeds are so sumall as to be scarcely visible. Pup. Where are these seeds to be found 3 Tut. In some, in the top of the plant; in others, in the middle of it; and again in some between the leaves, or under them. . They are found in little husks, or in convenient partitions, separated frou each other