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Eleaguus argentea. Naturat Orver: Eleagnacee— Oleaster Family. 
\ ILVER-LEAVED Oleaster is a native of Missouri, and is con- 
sidered a shrub worthy of introducing into ornamental shrubberies. 
t The foliage is handsome, and covered with a silvery scurf; the 
branches are red. In Europe there is a variety cultivated which 
> produces a fruit having, when dried, much the flavor of the 
date. It is of a reddish color, and about the shape and size 
of a plum. It is called Elaeagnus angustiflora, or Narrow-leaved 
AWS 4 Oleaster. Several other of the species are worthy of attention, one 
<i “being an evergreen variety from the East Indies. The botanical 
name seems to imply, in Greek, upright olive—a significance retained 
in the vernacular, which is derived from the Latin. 
Providence, 
ROVIDENCE, not niggardly, but wise, 
Here lavishly bestows, and there denies, 
That by each other’s virtues we may rise. 
—Granville. 
O mark the matchless working of the power HERE, when the tangled web is all explained, 
That shuts within the seed the future flower; Wrong suffered, pain inflicted, grief disdained, 
Bids these in elegance of form excel, Man’s proud, mistaken judgments and false scorn 
In color these, and those delight the smell; Shall melt like mists before the uprising morn, 
Sends Nature forth, the daughter of the skies, And holy truth stand forth serenely bright, 
To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. In the rich flood of God’s eternal light! 
— Cowper. —Mrs. Norton. 
E that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age. —Shakespeare. 
HO is it that will doubt HUS wisdom speaks 
The care of heaven? or think th’ immortal To man; thus calls him through this actual form _ 
Pow’rs are slow, ’cause they take the privilege Of nature, through religion’s fuller noon, 
To choose their own time, when they will send Through life’s bewildering mazes, to observe 
Their blessings down. —Davenant. A Providence in all! : —Ogilvie. 
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