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VlRGIN's BOWER. Classic. Orderl3. Agertnsofabont 

 Clematis viorna. 30 species, distributed over the world 



several indigenous to America. The 



C. Viunui found inthe Southern Htates. 



Root perennial. Flowers purple. 



There is a kind with white flower*. 



FILIAL LOVE. 



And gently, as Clematis' clasping stem 

 Twines the sear leaf, and screens it from the blast- 

 So filial hearts their tender care must cast 

 Around the mother-plant that once supported them 



Jlnon. 



SENTIMENT. 



Yes, I have left the golden shore, 



Where childhood midst the roses played: 



Those sunny dreams will come no more, 

 That youth a long bright sabbath made 



Yet while those dreams of memory's eye 

 Arise in many a glittering train, 



My soul goes back to infancy, 



And hears my mother's song again' 



And while my soul retains the power 

 To think upon each faded year, 



In every bright or shadowed hour, 

 My heart shall hold my mother dear. 



The hills may tower the waves may rise, 



And roll between my home and me; 

 Yet shall my quenchless memories 

 Turn with undying love to thee. 



W. G. Clark 

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