as the Deco-rators Assistant has for its object to treat ofthese subjects purely in their character ofadjuncts to ornament, and not with relationto their medicinal qvialities, whether fanciedor real, we by nomeans advise any ofour readers to placereliance on these al-leged specific virtuesof the… … present notice, the ivy, is that of solitarydesolation, as depicted in the crumblingmasses of some time-honoured ruin; some «* * * ivy-mantled tower, wherein The moping owl doth to the moon complain. And here, we may remark, that, in the com-position of the ivy as an ornament, care mustbe taken to…
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