Penistemoan, 
Pentstemon campanulatus. Naruray Orver: Scrophulariacee—Figwort Family. 
SAEAPIDLY advancing in favor since its introduction from Mexico, 
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f the Pentstemon is a handsome plant, finding a place in every 
<¢ garden when its beauty is once beheld; but it should be win- 
iS SW, py frost. It can be raised from seed, and is said to bloom the 
WOE ‘Set SS first year if sown early in the spring. The blossom is tubular 
“8 in shape, hanging three or four in a group, with the mouth of the flower 
oly y downward. The color differs in different individuals, being scarlet, blue, 
= [© and yellow, all remarkably handsome in whatever hue they sport. The 
i> stalk is from eighteen to twenty inches or more in height. They make 
ln nice conservatory or window plants, and will please all amateurs. 
Binh-Bred. 
OAST not these titles of your ancestors, 
Brave youths, they ’re their possessions not your own; 
When your own virtues equal’d have their names, 
»T will be fair to lean upon their fames, 
For they are strong supporters. —Ben Fonson. 
CROSS the garden path she went, 
Herself the sweetest flower there, 
Or brushed with tufts of plumage soft 
The humming insect tribe away. 
Though richest blooms of Orient 
Their fragrance mingled in the air. 
Her swarthy bondmaids held aloft 
A canopy of colors gay, 
UT off your giant titles, then I can 
Stand in your judgments’ blank and equal man, 
Though hills advancéd are above the plain, 
They are but higher earth, nor must disdain 
Alliance with the vale; we see a spade 
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For sun, nor wind, nor gauzy wing, 
Must venture on a touch too free; 
She was the daughter of a king, 
And bore herself right royally. 
—Mary E, Bradley, 
Can level them, and make a mount a glade; 
Howe’er we differ in the herald’s book, 
He that mankind’s extraction shall look 
In nature’s rolls, must grant we all agree 
In our best parts, immortal pedigree. 
Dr. Henry King. ' 
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