OW, the plaintive tones inspiring And I’m hastening with affection 
Still more sweet and yearning swell, To my hidden darling there, 
Till my spirit bursts its bondage, Where the cedar boughs are waving 
That had chained it with its spell; In the rustling evening air. 
Ai Ry, 
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MAN 
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Cedar-Hed, 
Juniperus Dirginiana. NATURAL ORDER: Conifere — Pine Family. 
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EARLY all the Pine family are pleasing to the eye for the 
diversity as well as the continuity of their foliage. There 
are somewhat over a hundred species in the order, and all 
» of them of infinite importance to man, growing as some of 
Y-x them do in immense forests, they yield an unbounded supply 
‘30 of timber for various architectural purposes, being light, 
easily wrought and durable. This includes all the pines, hemlocks, 
% spruces and cedars. The large, straight trunks of the White Pine 
SAy are in great demand for the masts of vessels, while other varieties 
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yield the resinous sap from which resin, tar, pitch and turpentine 
‘S are manufactured. The Red Cedar is a middle-sized tree, found in 
coast. Its wood is of a reddish cast, compact, fine grained, and 
almost imperishable, so well does it resist all the processes of decay. 
4 jhivg for Ghee. 
OR thee I will arouse my thoughts to try 
All heavenward flights, all high and holy strains; 
For thy dear sake I will walk patiently 
Through these long hours, nor call their minutes pain. 
—Frances Anne Kemble. 
—L. Sylvestre. 
E will walk this world, 
Yok’'d in all exercise of noble aim, 
And so through those dark gates across the wild 
That no man knows. ( 
—Tennyson. 
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