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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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tated. Slavery and the fury of the elements arenot now found, therefore, to have that intimateconnection which Cowper ascribed to them. If the poet were now alive, to what dread evilexistent amongst us— Portentotis, unexampled, unexplained — would he have ascribed the tornado whichvisited us last week, and in its courseleft behind an impress such as shall notbe forgotten by the present generation i We, bowed their heads and have escaped unscathedothers, and these, too, numerous, have lost hugilimbs, and have been robbed of their once fini.proportions. But to thousands of grand trees has comeworse misfortune—one absolutely irreparablefor these have fallen, like WOLSEY, never tirise again. The storm in its wild wilfulnesmay lay low the largest buildings, and overthrovthe greatest works of man, but these can brebuilt or reconstructed. In these things manpower seems almost unlimited. It is not swith the fallen giants of our woods, parks, an^gardens; they lie prostrate, torn up by th
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Fig, 99.—view in the grounds of Dunorlan. (see p. 526.) ?i that striking poem ofCowPERs, The NegrosComplaint, wherein he depicts the fierce illswhich fall upon the islands of the West Indiesbecause of the institution of slavery, amongstwhich Divine vengeance was made to assumethe form of the wild tornado— Strewing yonder sea with wrecks. Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, or, said the poet— * He foreseeing what vexationsAfrics sons should undergo,Fixd their tyrants habitationsWhere His whirlwinds answer—No. Many years have passed since slavery in ourcolonies was abolished, and its once fearfulassociations are now almost forgotten there ; perhaps, are more enlightened than Cowperwas, or it may be that, having less fatalistictendencies, we ascribe the visitation of thefierce and destructive air current rather tonatural causes, the which, if not readily ex-plained, are at least famihar to scientificenquirers. But we could well wish that thesecauses should be henceforth of some

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