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Currant. 
Ribes rubrmm. Narurat Orver: Grossulariacee —Currant Family. 
4 OTANICALLY named from a misapplied Arabic word, and 
vernacularly from Corinth in Greece, with which it has no 
special connection, while even the qualifying Latin epithet, 
rubrum (red) is a misnomer, as not only red but white cur- 
rants are included, it must be confessed this excellent shrub 
§,24lhas been unfortunate in its godfathers. It is, however, quite 
‘C familiar to everyone, or if not they have missed one of the blisses 
& of childhood in lying under its branches to pluck the bright, gleaming 
Hi, fruit, hanging like strung rubies in such clusters and bountiful abundance, 
> filled with a healthful and agreeable wine-like juice. The flowers are a 
delicate green, and would be pretty if of some brilliant tint. The yellow 
Currant, that grows wild in Missouri and Oregon, is grown as a garden 
shrub, for the bright and cheering flowers that appear so early in spring- 
time, and like the robin, are among nature’s earliest harbingers of her 
awakening, and of earth’s returning joy. 
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Vou Please Atl. 
ER every tone is music’s own, like those of morning birds, 
And something more than melody dwells ever in her words; 
The coinage of her heart are they, and from her lips each flows, 
As one may see the burden’d bee forth issue from the rose. 
—Edward C. Pinkney. 
HY words had such a melting flow, H! simple is the spell, I ween, 
And spoke the truth so sweetly well, That doth that grace impart; 
They drop’d like heaven’s serenest snow, It dwells its own sweet self within — 
And all was brightness where they fell! Tt is—a loving heart! 
—Moore. z —Mrs. Osgood, 
LL are lovely, all blossom of heart and of mind; 
All true to their natures, as Nature designed; 
To cheer and to solace, to strengthen, caress, 
And with love that can die not to buoy and to bless. 
—William Howitt, 
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