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CuVUS SCmpnnirfnS. Xati'rai. Order: EupliorbiaceiV — Spurge Family. 



NGRAVERS on wood are much indebted to this tree for the 



blocks they use to work on, which, after having been sawed 



and made perfectly smooth, receive a slight coating of some 



white substance, usualty white lead or Chinese white, to 



lender the drawing more conspicuous. The artist's work is 



done in pencil or India ink. The engraver then follows with 



lie ate touch the lines before him, and cuts the picture into the wood 



|L ,^ beneath The botanical name of this shrub comes from the Latin. 



The woid Buxus, box, is itself derived from the Greek p//.ws, pyx, or 



small box, and semfervirois is from the two Latin words semper. 



Iways, and vireiis. present participle of the verb virere, to be green. 



There are several varieties of this genus which are natives of Europe. 



The species known scientifically as the Buxus Nana, or Dwarf Box, 



is fnuch used as a bordering for walks both here and abroad. 



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rVS. his dark face a scorching cHme 

 ^ And toil, had done the work of time 

 Roughen'd the brow, the temples bared, 

 And sable hairs with silver shared. 

 Yet left — what age alone could tame — 

 The lip of pride, the eye of flame ; 



The full-drawn lip that upward curl'd. 

 The eye that seem'd to scorn the world. 

 That lip had terror never blench'd: 

 Ne'er in that eye had tear-drop quench'd 

 The flash severe of swarthy glow. 

 That mock'd at pain and knew not woe. 



—Sir Walter Scotl. 



"jVTOR box, nor limes, without their use are made, 

 -'■' .Smooth-grain'd and proper for the turner's trade; 

 Which curious hands may carve, and seal 

 With ease invade. —virgil. 



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'T'HE rolling wheel, that runneth often 'round, 

 '- The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear; 

 And drizzling drops, that often do redound. 

 Firmest flint doth in continuance wear: 



Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear, 

 And long entreaty, soften her hard heart. 

 That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear 

 Or look with pity on my painful smart. 



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