TROBE ITT 
®ENNEDYA, a native of New South Wales, is found in the 
s conservatory or greenhouse, occupying a prominent position 
being as yet quite rare. 
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or crimson flowers. 
"arm and settled. The pots should be well drained. 
Mental Beauty. 
LL higher knowledge in her presence falls 
Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her 
Loses discount’nanced, and like folly shows. 
—Milton. 
: HAT ’S the brow, 
Or the eye’s luster, or the step of air, 
Or color, but the beautiful links that chain 
The mind from its rare elements. —Willis. 
ARK her majestic fabric! she ’s a temple 
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine; 
Her soul ’s the deity that lodges there; 
Nor is the pile unworthy of the god. —Dryden. 
HINK of her worth, and think that God did mean 
This worthy mind should worthy things embrace; 
Blot not her beauties with thy thoughts unclean, 
Nor her dishonor with thy passion base. —Sir F. Davies. 
Sit paramount the graces; here enthron’d, 
Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, 
Of beauteous and sublime; here, hand in hand, Invites the soul to never-fading joy. 
—Akenside, 
IND, mind alone, (bear witness earth and heaven!) 
The living fountains in itself contains 
MIND of broad and vigorous scope, 
A penetration quick and keen, 
An insight into things unseen, 
A liberal dower of faith and hope. 
—Kate F. Hill. 
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The commonest variety has either blue 
There are others with scarlet, purple, and 
They grow readily from seed, 
“can be grown in pots, or placed in the ground when the weather is 
be 
