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Demophila, 
Nemophila insignis. Naturat Orper: fly drophyllacee —Waterleaf Family. 
EMOPHILA, meaning, in the Greek, lover of the grove, is a 
EA: m\ low-growing, delicate, herbaceous plant, about six inches high, 
a $5 sy ‘and a native of California. The narrow leaves are notched 
i) | es seco on the sides, and are slightly downy; the flowers are 
Zh N en small, but pretty, some being white with a purple spot on 
Pt 3 each petal, as if fairy hands had given each a pinch with 
, thumb and finger; another is blue, edged with white, and vice versa 
SY _ blue with a white center; altogether a dozen or more different 
DBRS varieties. The plants delight in shady grounds, making themselves 
#>doubly desirable on that account, and present a nice appearance as 
“a border for walks and margins of beds, or, if fancy dictate, they 
ek can be sown in a mass by themselves. 
Prosperity. 
AME NATURE gave him comeliness and health, 
And Fortune, for a passport, gave him wealth. 
—Walter Harte. 
HEN fortune raiseth to the greatest height, F both our fortunes, good and bad, we find 
The happy man should most suppress his state, Prosperity more searching of the mind; 
Expecting still a change of things to find, Felicity flies o’er the wall and fence, 
And fearing when the gods appear too kind. While misery keeps in with patience. 
—Sir Robert Howard. —Herrick. 
ORTUNE came smiling to my youth, and woo’d it, 
And purple greatness met my ripen’d years. 
! —Dryden, 
| edness puts out unnumbered thoughts OW rising fortune elevates his mind, 
Of import high, and light divine, to man. He shines unclouded, and adorns mankind. 
—Young. —Savage. 
AILY and hourly proof 
Tell us, prosperity is at highest degree 
The fount and handle of calamity. } 
—Chapman. 
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