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Xeranthemum anmuumn, Narurar Orver: Composite —Aster Family. 
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NUSUAL favor marks the progress of this class of plants, 
which is steadily advancing in the estimation of flower fan- 
ciers; for where a few years ago we had only the Gom- 
phrena, we now have a dozen different kinds, all interesting, 
and most excellent for winter bouquets on account of their 
®imperishable flowers. They are noticeable, when the flower 
is expanded, for the lack of moisture in their petals, being crisp under 
the fingers, whence their botanical name, signifying, in Greek, a dry 
flower. They usually bloom solitary, or one on a stem. The colors 
of the various kinds are rose, white, purple, yellow, and red, each kind 
of plant having a variety of colors. Most any seedsman would gladly 
furnish their names, and the cultivator would experience a new sensa- 
tion in seeing them bloom. For winter use they should be cut when 
most perfect, and dried in the shade. 
kiternity, 
97PIS the Divinity that stirs within us, 
’Tis Heav’n itself that points out an hereafter, 
And intimates eternity to man. —Addison. 
HE dream, which tells me life is short, Though sin makes dark the vale of tears, 
Foretells its endless day; These brighten distant skies. 
The mind, which wakes one thought of heaven, Oh! when the spirit, freed from clay, 
May never know decay. Its wings impatient furls, 
I love those dreams which link to heaven How will it soar in haste away, 
The soul with friendly ties; To live in mystic worlds! 
—W. R. Montgomery. 
HE eternal life beyond the sky, 
Wealth cannot purchase, nor the high 
And proud estate; 
The soul in dalliance laid—the spirit 
Corrupt with sin —shall not inherit 
A joy ‘so great. —From the Spanish. 
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