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(OlctaClUUS aigcutca. Natural Order: Elaagnaccce — Oleaster Family. 



II \ER-LEAVED Oleaster is a native of Missouri, and is con- 



'-uli led a shrub worthy of introducing into ornamental shrubberies. 



'j 'llu foliage is handsome, and covered with a silvery scurf; the 



II .inches are red. In Europe there is a variety cultivated which 



duces a fruit having, when dried, much the flavor of the 



^x • ci lie. It is of a reddish color, and about the shape and size 



iM J *'' ■' plum- It is called Ela^agnus angustiflora, or Narrow-leaved 



Okastei Several other of the species are worthy of attention, one 



j;^^' "being an evergreen variety from the East Indies. The botanical 



name seems to imply, in Greek, upright olive — a significance retained 



in the vernacular, which is derived from the Latin. 



J'njuibriit^* 



PROVIDEN'CE, not niggardly, but wist 



Here lavishly bestows, and there deni( 



Tliat bv each other's virtues we mav rise. 



Gti 



mark the matchless working of the power 

 That shuts within the seed the future flow^er 

 Bids these in elegance of form excel. 

 In color these, and those delight the smell; 

 Sends Nature forth, the daughter of the skies. 

 To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. 



'y HERE, when the tangled web is all explained. 

 Wrong suffered, pain inflicted, grief disdained, 

 Man's proud, mistaken judgments and false scorn 

 Shall melt like mists before the uprising morn. 

 And holy truth stand forth serenely bright, 

 In the rich flood of God's eternal light! 



—Co: 



■per. 



—Mrs, Norton, 



TIE that doth the ravens feed. 



Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 

 Be comtbrt to my age. —,9/iaie.ife, 



'T^HUS wisdom speaks 



To man; thus calls him through this actual form 

 Of nature, through religion's fuller noon, 

 Through life's bewildering mazes, to observe 

 A Providence in all! —Ogilvie. 



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