@neen of the Praivic. 
Spirea lobata. Narurat Orver: Rosacee—Rose Family. 
* waving its head amid the tall grass of the western prairies. It 
was formerly called the Siberian Red Spiraea, and is remarkable 
3, for its beauty, growing frequently from six to seven feet high. 
We It blooms freely, the flowers being a deep rose-color. It is a 
sister plant of the Meadow Sweet, the Pride of the Meadow, the 
Goat’s-beard, and several other of the Spireeas that are cultivated 
for their flowers, which, in the many varieties, appear during the 
whole summer. 
Dobility, 
2 OND man! though all the honors of your line 
Bedeck your halls and round your galleries shine 
In proud display, yet take this truth from me— 
Virtue alone is true nobility. — Gifford. 
HE noble ranks of fashion and birth OW poor are all hereditary honors, 
Are fetter’d by courtly rule; Those poor possessions from another’s deeds, 
They dare not rend the shackles that tend Unless our own just virtues form our title, 
To form the knave and fool. —£iiza Cook. And give a sanction to our fond assumption! 
—Shirley, 
AINGLORIOUS man, when fluttering wind does blow 
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky; 
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry, 
To think, without desert.of gentle deed 
And noble worth, to be advancéd high, 
Such praise is shame, but honor, virtue’s meed, 
Doth bear the fairest flower in honorable seed. 
— Spenser. 
RUE is that whilome that good poet said, HOE’ER amid’st the sons 
That gentle mind by gentle deed is known, Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, 
For man by nothing is so well bewray’d Displays distinguish’d merit, is a noble 
As by his manners in which plain is shown Of nature’s own creating. Such have risen, 
Sprung from the dust; or where had been our 
— Spenser. honories? —Thompson. 
, Of what degree and what race he is grown. 
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