Lantana. 
Lantana Mexicana. Natura Orver: Verbenacee —Vervain Family. 
2ST is to the tropics that we are indebted for this beautiful 
addition to our flora. The plants are shrubby, and can be 
cultivated in the hothouse or conservatory, or may be placed 
in the garden during summer. It grows very rapidly in the 
ground, and many adopt the plan of placing it in a medium- 
sized pot, and putting the pot along with the plant in the 
ground, as that plan curtails the roots and prevents the plant from 
growing too straggling, and thereby rewarding the cultivator with more 
flowers. The blossoms have the peculiarity of coming out one color, 
and passing through different shades to another color; a quality which 
always gives a pleasing aspect to the plant. They are very suscep- 
tible to frost. 
Rigar. 
foe many a stoic eye and aspect stern 
Mask hearts where grief hath little left to learn. 
—Byron, 
HY stand’st thou idle here? lend me thy sword! H*s awful presence did the crowd surprise, 
Many a nobleman is stark and stiff Nor durst the rash spectator meet his eyes: 
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies, Eyes that confess’d him born for kingly sway, 
Whose deaths are unrevenged. So fierce they flashed intolerable day. 
— Shakespeare. —Dryden, 
EN who their duties know, 
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain them. 
—Sir W. Fones. 
His eye Tt too much lenity 
Had that compelling dignity, And harmful pity must be laid aside. 
His mien that bearing, haught and high, To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? 
Which common spirits fear. —Scott. Not to the beast that would usurp their den; 
Whose hand is that the forest bear would lick? 
Not his that spoils her young before her face. 
UST not earth be rent 
Before her gems are found? , 
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