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Speedwell, 
Deronica arvensis. Natura Orver: Scrophulariacee—Figwort Family. 
7/6 eC in dry fields throughout the Northern and Middle States. It 
hy %.° is a small plant, from two to six inches high, with pale green 
if foliage, and flowers that are blue in color. There are some 
> native species of this plant that flourish only in the black and 
>R" heavy soil of wet ditches. A variety called Spiked Speedwell, a native 
~ of Eurepe and Asia, with beautiful blue or pink flowers, is now culti- 
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NsfiMe vated for the adornment of our gardens. It is supposed by some 
si authorities that this plant was named in honor of St. Veronica. The 
common Speedwell is used by the poorer classes in Sweden as a 
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substitute for tea, the true Chinese herb being probably saved for 
22 special occasions. Medicinally, it is reputed to possess properties that 
*“ are sudorific, diuretic, tonic and expectorant. 
Hemale Fidelity, 
On the tender ties, 
Close twisted with the fibers of the heart! 
Which broken, break them, and drain off the soul 
Of human joy, and make it pain to live. 
—Young. 
ND at last he wakened from his swoon, And said to his own heart, “She weeps for me:” 
And found his dear bride propping his head, And yet lay still, and feigned himself as dead, 
And chafing his pale hands, and calling to him; That he might prove her to the uttermost, 
And felt the warm tears falling on his face; And say to his own heart, “She weeps for me.” 
~ Tennyson. 
HE is as constant as the stars 
That never vary, and more chaste than they. 
~-Proctor. 
HOULD I change my allegiance for rancor, Lift, O lift, thou lowering sky, 
If fortune changes her side? An thou wilt thy gloom forego! 
Or should I, like a vessel at anchor, An thou wilt not, he and I : 
\ Turn with the turn of the tide? Need not part for drifts of snow. : 
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