, 
Syruce, 
Abies nigra, NaTuRAL OrvDER: Conifere—Pine Family. 
PRUCE is the name applied by Linnzus to all of the species 
comprehended under the genus Abies, but later botanists make 
a somewhat different classification. Spruces, firs, pines, balsams 
and hemlocks are all closely allied. This variety of Spruce 
%, is an inhabitant of the northern part of the United States, 
* where it attains the altitude of seventy and sometimes eighty 
hicks rearing upward a towering, pyramidal head. Some of the 
mountain forests in the colder latitudes are almost wholly composed 
of it. The trunk is straight; the wood is light, yet strong and 
.elastic, and is employed many ways in architecture, but is not as val- 
% uable as the White Spruce. The essence is produced by boiling the 
tops of the Abies nigra in water, then concentrating by evaporation. 
Farewell, 
AREWELL, then, thou loved one—O, loved but too well, 
Too deeply, too blindly for language to tell! 
—Charles Fenno Hoffman, 
AREWELL, my home, my home no longer now, Fat now farewell, farewell! I dare not lengthen 
Witness of many a calm and happy day; These sweet moments out; to gaze on thee 
And thou, fair eminence, upon whose brow Is bliss indeed, yet it but serves to strengthen 
Dwells the last sunshine of the evening ray, The love that now amounts to agony; 
Farewell! Mine eyes no longer shall pursue This is our last farewell. . —Mrs. Welby. 
The westering sun beyond the utmost height, 
When slowly he forsakes the fields of light. Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget. 
— Southey. — Shakespeare, 
AREWELL! I will omit no opportunity 
That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. 
— Shakespeare. 
ITH that wringing my hand he turns away; i lines came the parting hour, and what arise 
And tho’ his tears would hardly let him look, When lovers part — expressive looks, and eyes e 
Yet such a look did through his tears make way Tender and tearful—many a fond adieu, 
As show’d how sad a farewell there he took. And many a call the sorrow to renew. 
—Daniel. — Crabbe, 
