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TRAWBERRY TREE. Arbutus Unedo. 

 Class 10, Decandria. Order : Monooynia. 

 " We have few shrubs," says Miss Twam- 

 ley, in her ■ Romance of Nature,' " which 

 contribute so much and so constantly to the 

 adornment of our gardens and lawns as 

 this. Its deep glossy evergreen leaves are 

 alone beautiful ; but when in Autumn these are gemmed with 

 its clusters of delicate flowers, and the richly-hued ripening fruit, 

 (which is a year in attaining maturity, and so appears with the 

 succeeding blossoms,) I know few objects so beautiful as the 

 Arbutus. 



PERSEVERANCE. 



See, like a Ladye in a festal garb, 



How gaily deck'd she waits the Christmas time ! 



Her robe of living emerald, that waves 



And, shining, rustles in the frost-bright air, », 



Is garlanded with bunches of small flowers, — 



Small bell-shaped flowers, each of an orient pearl 



Most delicately modell'd, and just tinged 



With faintest yellow, as if, lit within, 



There hung a fairy torch in each lamp-flower. 



Some have a pinky hue, soft as a shell 



Painted by Amphitrite's hands ; for they, less white 



Than Lilies where they ope, blush e'en to know 



That Summer hath a flower more pure than they. 



TwAMLEY. 



Revolt is recreant, when pursuit is brave; 

 Never to faint, doth purchase what we crave. 



Machen 



Perseverance is a Roman virtue, 

 That wins each god-like act, and plucks success 

 Even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger. 



Havard. 



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