This one is recorded by Pliny 
as a plant reputed to cure a disease of the eyes, and we 
“find it mentioned in other ancient authors. The varieties 
“are numerous. Some of them can be grown out of doors until destroyed 
by frost, but most of them require some protection in the northern or 
A, colder latitudes. The Plumbago rosea is best adapted for hothouse 
culture, and produces a bountiful supply of red flowers; but for the 
3 greenhouse, the Plumbago Capensis is to be preferred, with its beautiful 
Se, spikes of blue flowers, blooming from midsummer until midwinter. The 
aw other species are natives of the East Indies, Peru and Chili, and all 
have proved hardy in the Southern States. They flourish best in their 
native soil in the neighborhood of the sea, or marshes formed by salt water. 
Qeckness with Dignity, 
MEEK mountain daisy, with delicate crest, 
And the violet whose eye told the heaven of her breast. 
—Mrs. Sigourney. 
LOVED thee for thy high-born grace, I loved thee for thy stainless truth, 
Thy deep and lustrous eye — Thy thirst for higher things, 
For the sweet meaning of thy brow, For all that to our common lot 
And for thy bearing high. A better temper brings. —Willis. 
ET so much is my poverty of spirit, 
So mighty, and so many my defects, 
That I would rather hide me from my greatness, 
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea. 
—Shakespeare. 
UMILITY, that low, sweet root, UMILITY is eldest-born of virtue, 
From which all heavenly virtues shoot. And claims the birthright at the throne of heav’n. 
—Moore. , —Murphy. 
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