Sx & 
SBE mee). 
é 2 REVS ooh 9 
. e Bred - ol Se i 4 iy ie a aha ee 
And wooed her with the love-sick ozten reed. Pollok. 
= the third eclogue of Virgil, we find an amusing contest 
or supremacy, in music, between two shepherds. 
Menalcas 
You win a a by music? on te: 
se sole ambition was ae dra 
The carta in streets to hear thy grating dna 
Dametas. 
Howe’er that be, suppose we trial make? 
1 to provoke you more, yon heifer stake. 
* 
Pollio approves, though rough, my rural reed, etc. 
pone Reliques of Ancient Poetry. 
e had made a Lath of straw, 
And aad that oaten rie ‘ould draw 
All sounds of wind Wordsworth’s Ruth. 
The flowers of pee oat oh no petals, and are disposed in a 
icl character of the oat consists in 
ard, that grows from the bac 
Iti is remarkable for the gece of its pani- 
with the 
the 
= the blossom. 
slightest breath of wind. 
tasteful lady” s hair; -and for this purpose, beau- 
tiful imitations are cipher) made of it 
OLEANDER. 
NERIUM. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
at. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss 
conroxrs, AP 
1 ¢, set, 1 
sare Ahan from the Greek adjective neros, signifyi ing 
hum: pin dient, pemtameseet ara ers.,_See Ainsworth, 
and ra bres 
E., Fr. ‘Olebailve’ my — psa —Joh 
Nerium ‘Oleander, or commo: 7m es of the south 
of Europe, East Indi 
shrubs, evergreen, wi 
color. The white variety is the most ten 
Oriental raabicong Ara its with great eee. and probability, 
ccna by tare ae a a which the righteous man is 
i acu te, 
i) 
salver-sha ped, tii. 
ness 
‘ve a poisonous quality. 
ware of applying it to their 
their custom with their bouquets, - 
OLIVE, 
Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
RLE. JASMINE. 
celebrated ELAIK of the Greeks. 
Sse ay 
; th Ze 4 
SP ee A 
such ri mereies that they ascribed its production to cipeee tutelar 
dei city: Min nerva _Thet amous dispute} ashen Neptune and oe ms 
f Attica, ergs re 
on the nay it was ‘decided that wait ever mi the es 
ald give to the inhabitants of the earth the most useful 
a should wer ve the patronage. of the herd The olive, 
pro roduc ed | by Min 
—the sym — of wa: ar vind’ bloodsh hed. Thenceforth she became 
the ptalas ity of the city, to which s 
Athene therétafor’ it had been called pe sth in honor of its 
founder, Cec crops. 
fahl the fall g lines— 
ye deities, who aid industrious swains, 
your coe I ane seca ro strains ! 
nd t k the teeming earth, 
? 
‘ome thou—and bring witht thee the aid 
Who first at Athens raised the olive’s whales 
ee Pallas 
Geo. b.1. 
The 
was a wo ranch ae ot back to the ark he Noah’s ie "a 
which testified that the waters, the ministers of heaven’s ven- 
geance, had subsided. 
I hold olive in my ne Sie words are 
As full 
To thee the heavens, in thy nativit: ~ 
Aajar'd » an olive branch, and seit 
As likely to be blest in peace and w 
Shaks. 
=> 
The sign of peace, w vt ew displays, 
The olive wreath posses: 
In Rome, a parti cular live b 
was bestowed in sivthlientic on of some ate act of valor 
oliveisa remarkabl ES long lived tree. According tos some 
ourishing more than five ——— In Fra 
are netoran whic en C ae 
The flowers [ the olive are small, 
ere 
encompass with their arms. 
white, lightly odorif 
the leaves. Each fl 
talous corolla, div ided — four ‘eb ‘a The 
] ni e, (drupa, Latin.) Leaves 
si whitish and 
rib benea 
e olive is said to be extremely tenacious ¥ life ; and it is 
that when the trunk has perished by frost or fire, it 
< si even eh a bit of ng bark, with a thin 
ried in co a a perfect 
por aichiewea*s North hsaaeionn Sylva.’ 
Sor fears’ the ere oft the smallest sant 
Oft from cleft ae with age pone may *d, 
New fibres shoot, and springs a — oe shade. 
g. Georg. 6, 2. 
The ancients relied chiefly upon propagation by slips; an 
easy and expeditious mode, still generally followed in Spain. 
ORANGE. 
CITRUS AURANTIUM. 
(For Citrus, see Lemon.) 
Class 18.—POLYDELPHIA. Order.—1COSANDRIA, 
Nat. Ord. Lin: Nat. Ord. es 
BICORNES. 
AURANT: 
Skinner says the orange takes its name from the tiiihiaides 
color. 
Latin Auranti Saag ae denotes its golden co 
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