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Gpiviva lobata. Natural Order: Rosaccce — Rose Fatuily. 



IMR^^A, so called probably because of the spiral shape of the 



pi (1-cells, is a blossom from nature's wild bouquet, and is found 



\\ a\ ing its head amid the tall grass of the western prairies. It 



\\ as tbrmerlv called the Siberian Red Spiraea, and is remarkable 



I its beauty, growing frequently from six to seven feet high. 



blooms freely, the flowers being a deep rose-color. It is a 



sistei plant of the Meadow Sweet, the Pride of the Meadow, the 



Goat's-beard, and several other of the Spira?as that are cultivated 



i^,;:^ 'for their flowers, which, in the many varieties, appear during the 



summer. 



T70ND man! though all the honors of your line 



Bedeck your halls and round your galleries shine 

 In proud display, yet take this truth from me — 

 Virtue alone is true nobility. —Gifford. 



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noble ranks of fashion and birth 

 ire fetter'd by courtly rule; 

 They dare not rend the shackles that tend 

 To form the kna\e and fool. —Eliza Cook. 



TTOW poor are all hereditary honors, 



^ ^ Those poor possessions from another's deeds 



Unless 

 And gi- 



r own just virtues form our title 

 a sanction 



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\IXGLORIOUS man, when fluttering 

 In his light wings, is lifted up to sky ; 

 The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry. 

 To think, without desert of gentle deed 

 And noble worth, to be advanced high. 

 Such praise is shame, but honor, virtue's meed, 

 Doth bear the foirest flower in honorable seed. 



—Spern 



'T'RUE is that whilome that good poet said. 



That gentle mind by gentle deed is known 

 For man by nothing is so well bewrav'd 



As by his manners in which plain is shown 



Of what degi-ee and what race he is grown. 



-Sfemer. 



our fond assumption I 

 —Shirley. 

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HOE'ER amid'st the sons 

 Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue. 



Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble 

 Of nature's own creating. Such have risen. 

 .Sprung from the dust; or where had been 

 honories > — Thompst 



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