(f a n a jj t n ft. 
JJblTtS umbflleta. Natural Order: Cruciferce—Mustard Family, 
BERIS, or Candytuft, is so well adapted for bouquets that 
an ample bed of it should be found in every garden, for it 
^will bear any amount of clipping and still yield an abun¬ 
dance of flowers until destroyed by frost. The plants bear 
removal so poorly that it is best to sow them where they 
are to bloom, and to pull up all the superfluous ones. It is 
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a native of Spain, and takes its name from the ancient appellative of 
that country, which was Iberia. It is most excellent for winter use, 
grown in pots or in vases; and is also planted as a border in flower 
gardens. The flowers are white, purple or crimson, and some of 
them are very fragrant. 
JtrrJjibthmj. 
TN the well-framed models, 
1 With emblematic skill and mystic order, 
Thou show’dst where tow’rs on battlements should rise; 
Where gates should open, or where walls should compass. 
—Prior. 
r\UR fathers next, in architecture skill’d, 
^ Cities for use, and forts for safety, build; 
Then palaces and lofty domes arose; 
These for deyotion, and for pleasure those. 
— Sir R. RIackmorc. 
TRESTWARD a pompous frontispiece appear’d, 
’ 1 On Doric pillars of white marble rear’d. 
Crown’d with an architrave of antique mold, 
And sculpture rising on the roughen'd gold. 
— Pope. 
H 
IS son builds on, and never is content 
Till the last farthing is in structure spent. —Drydm. 
T T E R E stair on stair, with heavy balustrade, 
A 1 And columned hybrids cut in rigid stone, 
And vase, and sphinx, and obelisk, arrayed, 
And arched wide bridges over wheelways thrown. 
Valleys of heaven the gardens seemed to be, 
Or isles of cloudland in a sunset sea. -. 
JET 
my due feet never fail 
To walk the studious cloister’s pale, 
And love the high embowed roof. 
With antique pillars massy proof; 
And storied windows richly dight, 
Casting a dim, religious light. 
Milton. 
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