THE CHASTE TREE. 



the garden tree shows the effect of a Good Education, and 

 the trainer's pains are well rewarded by a rich and delicious 

 fruit. Such difference is there between an untaught person 

 who presumes to prune our fruit-trees, and the educated fruit- 

 grower, who has learned their various habits, and knows 

 how to do his work. The former, if allowed to prune trees, 

 will usually destroy all the fruit-bearing branches, while 

 the latter cuts away those which only exhaust the tree, 

 and retains such as will bear abundant and good fruit. 



The tree, ornamental in flower, deserves our regard for 

 its pleasant fruit, and is highly esteemed by the turner and 

 cabinet-maker for the hardness of its wood. 



THE CHASTE TREE {Vitex agnus caj/'^^j).— COLDNESS. 



Chastity. 



This is an autumnal shrub, bearing blue and white flowers 

 in spikes of seven to sixteen inches in length. The dried 

 leaves are very aromatic. For fanciful reasons it has had 

 assigned to it the singular specific name Agnus Castus, and 

 been made the emblem of Coldness and Chastity. 



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