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UlntllS Americana. Natural Order: Ulmacecc—Elm Family. 
[NE of the most beautiful trees in the United States is the 
P American Elm. Nothing can surpass the exquisite beauty of 
its long, pendulous branches, that hang from its ample crown 
like brown threads strung with dark-green leaves. The trunk 
dbrises erect to a considerable height, whence it stretches upward 
^ iinnumerable arms to sustain the wealth of foliage whose shadow 
; so enticing on the grass beneath. Clusters of smaller twigs adorn 
kj?Othe body of the tree, where they sway with all the grace of an ostrich 
^ s plume, catching the slightest motion of the toying breeze, as if the 
sun and air filled them with an ecstatic joy. The Elm thrives best 
yT in moist lands, particularly lowland pastures, where it makes a rapid 
growth. It has been much used around the sequestered homes of 
New England, and the effect has been most picturesque. 
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/A HEAVEN, he cried, my bleeding country save! 
^ Is there no hand on high to shield the brave? 
Yet though destruction sweep those lovely plains, 
Rise, fellow-men! our country yet remains! —Campbell. 
O NATCH from the ashes of your sires 
The embers of their former fires, 
And he who in the strife expires 
Will add to theirs a name of fear 
That tyranny shall quake to hear. 
— Byron. 
r T'HE sword may pierce the bearer, 
A Stone walls in time may sever; 
’Tis heart alone, 
Worth steel and stone, 
That keeps man free forever! 
-Moore. 
J UDGE me not ungentle, 
Of manners rude, and insolent of speech, 
If when the public safety is in question, 
My zeal flows warm and eager from my tongue. 
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— Rowe. 
E who maintains his country’s laws 
Alone is great; or he who dies in the good cause. 
—Sir A. Hunt. 
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