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Mourning Bride, 
Scabiosa atropurpurea. Naturat Orver: Dipsacee— Teasel Family. 
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SOURNING BRIDE (Sweet Scabious) is a perennial plant, 
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® save it, as most perennial plants bloom better when the 
¢ roots are well established. For many years it has been a favorite 
garden flower, being neat in habit, with very pretty tapering foliage 
and desirable blossoms. ‘The buds are bunched together like a 
semi-spherical cushion, the rounded side up, the lower row of 
florets of which open first, and, when all are expanded, fairly 
‘ crowd each other for room. They are velvety in texture, and in 
a the eye can scarcely penetrate the depth of their tints, as they are 
only a shade or two from being black; hence the epithet, atropurpurea, or dark 
purple. There are some light varieties, also white. They have the odor of 
musk. 
Qutortunate Attachment. 
l HAVE thrust away in silence each loving thought of you; 
I have laid to rest each memory, so tender and so true; 
I have prayed upon my bended knees for power to forget, 
And the answer to that prayer is this—I love you, love you yet! 
—Christian Reid. 
‘NEED not say how, one by one, NS one sigh shall tell my story, 
Love's flowers have dropp’d from off love’s chain, Not one tear my cheek shall stain; 
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Enough to say that they are gone, Silent grief shall be my glory — 
And that they cannot bloom again. Grief that stoops not to complain. 
—Miss Landon. —Mrs. Robinson, 
NHAPPY he, who lets a tender heart, A“ me! I thought you loved me well— 
Bound to him by the ties of earliest love, Our human eyes are blind; 
Fall from him by his own neglect, and die, He only reads life’s parable, 
\ Because it met no kindness. —Perejval, Who never looks behind. —porton Grey. ! 
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