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Xerantl)cmuin aimuuill. Natural Order: Co///pos/icc — Aster Family. 



NUSUAL favor marks the progress of this class ol plants, 

 * which is steadily advancing in the estimation of flower fan- 

 ciers; for where a few jears ago we had only the Gom- 

 phrena, we now have a dozen different kinds, all interesting, 

 -^ ,^_^. and most excellent for winter bouquets on account of their 

 '^■^imperishable flowers. They are noticeable, when the flower 

 IS expanded, for the lack of moisture in their petals, being crisp under 

 the fingers, whence their botanical name, signifying, in Greek, a drj- 

 flower. They usually bloom solitary, or one on a stem. The colors 

 of the various kinds are rose, white, purple, yellowy and red, each kind 

 of plant having a varietv of colors. Most any seedsman would gladly 

 furnish their names, and the cultivator would e.xperience a new sensa- 

 tion in seeing them bloom. For winter use they should be cut when 

 most pertect, and dried in the shade. 



"pi.S the Divinity that stirs within us, 



'Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter. 

 And intimates eternity to man. -AJitisou. 



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Though sin inake> dark the vale of 

 These brighten distant skies. 



Oh ! when the spirit, freed from clay 

 Its wings impatient furls. 



How will it soar in haste away. 

 To live in mvstic worlds! 



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'pHE eternal life beyond the sky. 

 ^ Wealth cannot purchase, nor the high 



And proud estate; 

 The soul in dalliance laid — the spirit 

 Corrupt with sin — shall not inherit 



A joy so great. -From Ihe Sfa, 



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