Canterbury Bells, 
Campanula medium. Natura Orver: Campanulacee—Bellwort Family. 
7 SPRETENDING but handsome is this species of the Campa- 
nula, introduced into this country from Germany. ‘The stem is 
® from two and a half to three feet high, and produces flowers 
A, that are large and attractive, continuing in bloom from early 
summer until fall. The blossoms are bell-shaped, as in the 
NK other varieties, the distinctive differences consisting in diversity 
> of foliage, and dissimilarity of style. Some are tall and stately, while 
others are mere cushions of verdure and flowers. The color of their 
blossoms is usually blue, though sometimes lavender or white. 
Gratitudy. 
OUNTAIN of mercy! whose pervading eye 
Can look within and read what passes there, 
Accept my thoughts for thanks, I have no words; 
My soul, o’erfraught with gratitude, rejects 
The aid of language. —Hannah More. 
HE benefits he sow’d in me met not O a generous mind 
Unthankful ground, but yielded him his own The heaviest debt is that of gratitude, 
With fair increase; and I still glory in it. When ’tis not in our power to repay it. 
—Massinger. —Franklin, 
Wes gratitude o’erflows the swelling heart, 
And breathes in free and uncorrupted praise 
For benefits received; propitious heaven 
Takes such acknowledgments as fragrant incense, 
And doubles all its blessings. —Lillo. 
| FIND a pious gratitude disperse Like curls of holy incense, overtake 
Within my soul; and at every thought of him Each other in my bosom, and enlarge 
Engenders a warm sigh within me, which, With their embrace his sweet remembrance. 
—Shirley, 
I GROW impatient, till I find some way 
\ Great offices with greater to repay. —Dryden. ’ 
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