L ANT AN A. 



This shrub is sometimes grown in gardens, but it does not 

 yield kindly to cultivation. In its wild state it delights in 

 the borders of forests. Weak and timid creatures seek an 

 asylum under its long branches, which cover the earth 

 around. The hare in her extremity squats with confidence 

 beneath it, for its strong odour puts her canine pursuers at 

 fault ; the thrush builds in it a house for her young, and 

 feeds upon its fruit ; the entomologist finds among its twigs, 

 bristling with thorns, numerous shining insects, which have 

 no other shelter, and which seem to divine that this shrub 

 is destined to be their refuge. 



LANTANA (Z. Cammard). — SHARPNESS. 



The Cammara is a native of the West Indies. It is a 

 small bushy plant, with flowers white as snow, and varying, 

 as pink, yellow, and orange. It is of a peculiar aromatic 

 odour, but its twigs and branches are so beset with thorns, 

 that if we bring the hand into contact with them we are 

 instantly sensible of their Sharpness. 



LARCH {Larix communis). — BOLDNESS. 



The Larch loves to grow upon lofty mountains, where it 

 rises from thirty to eighty feet. Hence it is a fit emblem of 

 Boldness, as well also because it seems to thrive where scarce 

 any other tree will grow, and it clothes with soil the almost 



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