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JpCntstciUCm CampanulatUS. Natural Ordek: Scrophiilariacea — Figivort Family. 



APIDLY advancino; in favor since its introduction from Mexico, 

 the Pentstemon is a handsome plant, finding a place in every 



(^|»gaiden when its beauty is once beheld; but it should be win- 

 teied in a cool part of the greenhouse, or some place free from 

 irost. It can be raised from seed, and is said to bloom the 

 iirst year if sown early in the spring. The blossom is tubular 

 I \^^ m sliapL, hanging three or four in a group, with the mouth of the flower 

 l^c'l^downwaid. The color differs in different individuals, being scarlet, blue, 

 P*s> and }ellow, all remarkably handsome in whatever hue they sport. The 

 )^^ stalk is from eighteen to twenty inches or more in height. They make 

 nae (.onsei\ atory or window plants, and will please all amateurs. 



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■pOAST not these titles of your ancestors. 



Brave youths, they 're their possessions not you 

 When your own virtues equal'd have their names, 

 'Twill be fair to lean upon their fames. 

 For they are strong sujiporters. —Ben Jot 





ACROSS the garden path she went, 

 ■'*■ Herself the sweetest flower there, 

 Though richest blooms of Orient 



Their fragrance mingled in the air. 

 Her swarthy bondmaids held aloft 

 A canopy of colors gay, 



pUT off your giant titles, then I can 



Stand in your judgments' blank and equ; 

 Though hills advanced are above the plain 

 They are but higher earth, nor must disda 

 Alliance with the vale; we see a spade 



Or brushed with tufts of plumage soft 

 The humming insect tribe away. 



For Sim, nor wind, nor gauzv wing. 

 Must venture on a touch too free; 



.She was the daughter of a king. 

 And bore herself right royally. 



—Mary E. Bradlry. 



Can level them, and make a mount a glade; 

 Howe'er we differ in the herald's book. 

 He that mankind's extraction shall look 

 In nature's rolls, must grant we all .igree 

 In our best parts, immortal pedigree. 



-Dr. fh-i 



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