LYSIMACHIA LONG I R UJ \. 



This is a native of North America, being 

 found from Pensylvania to Virginia, in wet 

 woods, near ponds. It is a hardy peren- 

 nial plain, growing- with us to about a foot 

 in height, and flowering in July and August. 

 It may be kept either in the full ground or 

 in a pot, in loam and peat soil, and should 



The flowers of this plant display much 

 beauty: they silently remind us of our 

 Universal Creator, who has revealed to us, 

 in His Holy Word, that "Christianity 

 which is so suitable to us in the benefits 

 and sweetness of it. What a happy religion 

 is it that employeth' men in nothing 



doing good to themselves and others, — 

 whose work is only the receiving and im- 

 proving of God's mercies, aad loving and 

 delighting in all that is good, rejoicing in 



