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Escallonia, 
GEscallonia rubra. Narurat Orper: Saxifragacee —Saxifrage Family. 
UITE an acquisition to the flora of our Southern States will 
.. be made whenever these plants shall become naturalized 
= there. They are native of South America, and are con- 
fined exclusively to mountainous regions. In cold climates 
I all the Escallonias (of which there are about seven genera 
“** and ‘sixty species) are confined entirely to the greenhouse or con- 
servatory, but where the temperature is warm or comparatively mild 
they survive the winter in open air. They are shrubby in growth; 
the leaves are evergreen, appearing alternately on each side of the 
branches; the blossoms are scarlet, white or pink, and are delicate 
and waxy in texture. The plants require a light and friable soil, and 
are said to bloom and thrive best when planted in the ground in the 
conservatory. : 
Opinion, 
PINION is that high and mighty dame 
Which rules the world; and in the mind doth frame 
Distaste or liking; for, in human race, 
She makes the fancy various as the face. 
—Howel, 
H, breath of public praise, PINION, the blind goddess of fools, foe 
Short-lived and vain! oft gain’d without desert, To the virtuous, and only friend to 
As often lost unmerited. —Harvard. Undeserving persons. — Chapman. 
E lov'd his kind, but sought the love of few; ET not opinion make thy judgment err; 
And valued old opinions more than new. The evening conquest crowns the conqueror 
—Park Benjamin. —Lady Alimony, 
ET in opinions look not always back; PINION governs all mankind, 
Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track. Like the blind’s leading of the blind. 
—O. W. Holes. : —Butler, 
H, he sits on high in all the people’s hearts; 
And that which would appear offense in us, 
His countenance, like richest alchemy, 
f Will change to virtue and to worthiness. ue 
$ Ie vag — Shakespeare. ath 
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