48 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



We do not learn that this tree has in any 

 shape added to the catalogue of medicines. 

 The Acacia of the shops was formerly made 

 of the unripe pods of the true acacia tree ; 

 but of later years, the Acacia Germanica, 

 which is made from unripe sloes, is preferred 

 as an astringent medicine to the true acacia. 



ROSE AC ACIA. ROBINIA HISPID A. 



THIS beautiful flowering shrub, which is 

 deemed the emblem of elegance, did not 

 cross the Atlantic until more than a century 

 after Jean Robin had transplanted its relative 

 into European soil. It is a native of Carolina, 

 from whence it was brought in 1743, to em- 

 bellish our shrubberies that have now 



66 The world's extremes within their branches join'd, 

 To either hemisphere convey thy mind ; 

 Each plant you see presents a country new, 

 And every thought affords a voyage too ; 

 Through them, thy thought, that wanders from its 



home, 

 To distant climates shall in safety roam." 



DELILLE. 



