stem, 
Cannabis sata. Narurar Orver: Urticacee— Nettle Family. 
well-known plant, naturalized in waste places in the United 
7 States. It came originally from Persia and the East Indies, 
where the natives make an intoxicating beverage from it. In 
some States it is largely cultivated for the fiber of the stalks, 
and when properly prepared is manufactured into the coarser 
grades of toweling and ropes. It grows quite tall and erect, branching 
Jat intervals, having foliage that is sharply cleft and palmate, giving the 
‘¢ whole plant a light, airy appearance. The flowers are green, and the 
* seeds are crowded up and down the summits of the branches. It is 
very appropriate for sowing along fences, and is admirable for forming 
screens to shut off unsightly objects in a rear yard. In the fall, the 
seeds attract the dear little birds, which sometimes visit them in large 
flocks, after the frost and late season have exhausted other sustenance. 
Haty. 
EAV’N trom all creatures hides the book of fate, 
All but the page prescribed their present state. 
—Pope. 
HE Fates but only spin the coarser clue; HAT fate imposes, men must need abide; 
The finest of the wool is left for you. It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 
—Dryden. —Shakespeare, 
HY downcast looks, and thy disorder’d thoughts 
Tell me my fate: I ask not the success 
My cause has found. —Addison. 
UPREME, all-wise, eternal Potentate! Original of beings! Power divine! 
Sole Author, sole Disposer of our fate, Since that I live, and that I think, is thine! 
Enthroned in light and immortality, Benign Creator! let thy plastic hand 
Whom no man fully sees, and none can see! Dispose its own effect. —Matthew Prior. 
ATE, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe; 
What is decreed must be; and be this so. 
— Shakespeare. 
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