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Manvandia, 
fHlaurandia sempervirens, NaruraL OrpER: Scrophulariacee—Figwort Family. 
ANDSOME and delicate, the Maurandia is a delightful vine 
for indoor culture, as its foliage is attractive and pretty, being 
small and neat in shape, similar to the point of a spear, and 
entirely unobtrusive. The flowers are about the size and 
gi shape of the foxglove, and, in color, purple, white, or rose- 
colored. They are most excellent for inserting in the sides 
of hanging-baskets or window-boxes, and are used by florists for that 
sopurpose. They are perennial, but as they bloom the first season after 
2 perish on the approach of frost, except removed to the house. The 
name has been given in honor of Prof. Maurandy. 
Ouurtesy, 
O gently blending courtesy and art, 
That wisdom’s lips seem’d borrowing friendship’s heart. 
—O. W. Holmes. 
HEPHERD, I trust thy honest offered courtesy, A SMILE for one of mean degree, 
Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds A courteous bow for one of high, 
So modulated both that each 
And courts of princes. —Milton. Saw friendship in his eye. 
—FHenry B. Hirst. 
With smoky rafters, than in tap’stry halls 
TUDY with care politeness, that must teach 
The modish forms of gesture and of speech, 
—Stilling fleet. 
OULD you both please and be instructed too, And ever be more knowing than you seem; 
Watch well the range of shining, to subdue; The lowest genius will afford some light, 
Hear every man upon his favorite theme, Or give a hint that had escaped your sight. 
—Stilling fleet, 
LL seemes (sayd he) if he so valient be, 
That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; 
For seldom yet did living creature see 
That courtesie and manhood ever disagree. 
— Spenser. 
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