Qucca, 
Ducea filamentoga. Naturat Orper: Liliacee—Lily Family. 
name of this plant, which compares not unfavorably with 
the Aloe among foliage plants. The leaves are stiff and 
sharp-pointed, forming a mass some two or three feet broad, 
and even more in old plants. There are six or seven species 
or individual plants, differing somewhat in their style of 
° foliage, yet with a strong similarity noticeable in them all. 
They do not bloom until quite large, when a tall stem rises from the 
’ center, from three to four feet high, sometimes producing from “two 
to four hundred bell-shaped florets.” All the species are natives of the 
Southern States, and each and all make a fine and imposing appear- 
ance in the garden or on the lawn. The Yucca filamentosa has long 
threads trailing from the margins of the sharp-pointed, leaves, whence 
it is sometimes called Adam and Eve’s Needle and Thread. 
Authority, 
MAN in authority is but as 
A candle in the wind, sooner wasted 
Or blown out than under a bushel. 
—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
OT from gray hairs authority doth flow, E doth not nicely prank " 
Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; In clinquant pomp, as some of meanest rank, 
But our past life, when virtuously spent, But armed in steel; that bright habiliment 
Must to our age those happy fruits present. Is his rich valor’s sole rich ornament. 
—Denham. — Foshua Sylvester. 
|F pecusoatns in my name And let you through to mercy. Ye shall fall 
Take courage, O thou woman! man, take hope! No more, within that Eden, nor pass out 
Your graves shall be as smooth as Eden’s sward, Any more from it. Live and love,— 
Beneath the steps of your prospective thoughts; Doing both nobly, because lowlily! 
And one step past them, a new Eden gate Live and work,—strongly, because patiently! 
\ Shall open on a hinge of harmony, —Mrs. Browning. 
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