Here nature co-works with the most common and inartistic of human industries, as they are generally held, with faculties as subtle and beautiful as those which she brings to bear upon the choicest flowers.

The same is true of grains and grasses for man and beast.

They come down to us from a kind of heathen parentage, receiving new forms and qualities from age to age.

The wheats, which make the bread of all the continents, now exhibit varieties which no one has undertaken to enumerate.
Fruits follow the same rule, and show the same joint-working of Nature and Art as in the realm of flowers.
The wheel within wheel, the circle within circle expand and ascend until the last circumferential line sweeps around all the world of created being, even taking in, upon the common radius, the highest and oldest of the angels.

From the primrose peering from the hedge to the premier seraph wearing the coronet of his sublime companionship; from the lowest forms of vegetable existence to the loftiest reaches of moral nature this side of the Infinite, this everlasting law of co-working rules the ratio of progress and development.