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A Bette. 
ET graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, 
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide; 
If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you'll forget ’em all. 
—Pope. 
ROSEBUD in its first green coat, ECAUSE thou wear’st, ma belle, 
You wrapped your shawl about your throat, A strong, pure, silent spell, 
And crossed the lawn, when we went boating; Safely from all dark ways my feet retrieving; 
I touched the fragrance of your hand; Because thou wert to me 
d The fog came down and hid the land, As lulled air to wild sea, [ing. 
As white as snow, and we were floating. Storm-furrowed, fiercely free, and strongly griev- 
—Will Wallace Harney. —Edgar Favceett. 
- her cheeks the vermil red did shew, HE was a form of life and light, 
Like roses in a bed of lilies shed; That, seen, became a part of sight; 
The which ambrosial odors from them threw, And rose, where’er I turned mine eye, 
And gazer’s sense with double pleasure fed. The morning star of memory. 
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Orchis. 
Orchis- spectabilis, Narurar Orver: Orchidaceae —Orchis Family. 
; Vi E have many varieties of this plant growing throughout the 
pee States, on our prairies or in shady, rocky places. 
#eThey usually produce very handsome and various colored 
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Orchids, found in the South Sea Islands, growing on branches 
tof trees and other substances, and depending so much on the 
air for their sustenance, and so little on root nourishment, that they are 
~ called air plants. They are more gorgeous in bloom than any terrestrial 
plant. In England there are extensive houses for their culture alone, and 
’ we believe some few in this country. They are mostly grown in small 
” cork boxes, or on pieces of wood, in a warm, moist atmosphere. Some 
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