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Zinnia elegaUS. Natural Order: Cofupositce — Aster Family. 



,yj^ INNIA was named in honor of John Godfrey Zinn, a Ger- 



'>/'" ^ man botanist who flourished in 1757, when the science was 



I in its intancy. In the cultivated plant of today can hardly 



'y^ be recognized the primitive flower found in the fields and 



roadsides of the Southern States, which, even in its simplest 



p ' ^ "v^ form, has been considered handsome. Formerly the blossom 



was only scarlet, and single; but care in propagation has doubled it 



/o to the center, and it has sported into hues many, rich and varied. 



WThe flower perishes slowly without closing its petals, losing its 



bright tints and assuming more sobriety as its daj's are numbered. 



On this account it is sometimes called Youth and Old Age. 



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li^Dug]|ls in jltssnt^. 



OVE reckons hours for months, and d.iys for years; 

 And every Httle absence is an age. —Drvden. 



TELL him I 1 



-s r\ TELL him I have sat these three long hours 

 >' ^ Counting the weary beatings of the clock, 



:AT shall I do with all the days and hours 

 That must be counted ere I see thy face? 

 How shall I charm the interval that lowers Which slowly portion'd out the promis'd time 



Between this time and that sweet time of grace? That brought him not to bless me with his sight! 

 —Frances Anne Kemble. —Joanna Baillie. 



T WEPT thy absence, o'er and o'er again, 



*■ Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought gi-ew pain. 



And memory, like a drop th.at night and day 



Falls cold and ceaseless, wore mv heart away! 



r^ALL thou ine home! from thee apart 

 ^ Faintly and low my pulses beat. 

 As if the life-blood of my heart 



Within thine own heart holds its seat, 

 And floweth only where thou art. 



—^^rs. E. Oaks Smith. 



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qrHERE 'S not an hour 

 ^ Of day or dreaming night but I am w 

 There 's not a wind but whispers of thy 1 

 And not a flower that sleeps beneath the 

 But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale 

 Of thee. 

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