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3^cacia-^0B^, 



Kobiuia Ijispi^a. Natural Oiidek: Lcguminosix — Pulse Family. 



IE Rose Acacia is a beautiful shrub of the locust tribe, 



varying in height from three to five feet, and is grown for 



its large clusters of rose-colored, pea-shaped flowers, which 



are very pleasing to the eye. The Acacias are all very 



handsome plants, with great diversity of foHage, and number, 



in all their varieties, upward of four hundred. They are 



in every quarter of the globe, except Europe, and some of them 



are natives of our own Southern States. The flowers of the choice 



varieties are yellow, pale straw-color, red, or purple. They require 



the protection of the greenhouse to grow them in perfection. 



QMALL service is true service while it lasts; 

 ^ Of friends however humble, scorn not one: 

 The daisy, by the shadow that it casts. 



Protects the ling'ring dewdrop from the sun. 



/^H! let my friendship in the 

 ^^ Though but a bud among 



wreath, 

 the flowers. 

 Its sweetest fragrance 'round thee breathe — 

 'Twill serve to soothe thy weary hours. 



—Mrs. Welly. 



TOVE is a sudden blaze which soon decays; 

 '^ Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays; 

 Not daily benefits exhaust the flame: 

 It still is giving, and still burns the same. 



PRIENDSHIP'S an abstract of love's noble fl.ame, 



'Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross; 

 The next to angel's love, if not the same; 



As strong as passion is, though not so gross: 

 It antedates a glad eternity, 

 And is a heaven in epitome. —Kaiherine Phillifs. 



CRIENDSHIP is a plant of heavenly birth. 

 Constant its nature, and immense its worth, 



rj'RIENDSHIP is the cement of two minds, 

 ^ As of one man the soul and body is ; 



known to rest. 



And glow most warmly 



i-irtuous breast! 

 —Praltcnt. 



Of which one cannot sever but the other 

 Suffers a needful separation. 





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