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HobiuicX l)iS]3lLia. Natural Order: Leguminosce — Pulse Family. 
HE Rose Acacia is a beautiful shrub of the locust tribe, 
varying in height from three to five feet, and is grown for 
its large clusters of rose-colored, pea-shaped flowers, which 
are very pleasing to the eye. The Acacias are all very 
handsome plants, with great diversity of foliage, and number, 
in all their varieties, upward of four hundred. They are 
found in every quarter of the globe, except Europe, and some of them 
are natives of our own Southern States. The flowers of the choice 
varieties are yellow, pale straw-color, red, or purple. They require 
the protection of the greenhouse to grow them in perfection. 
OMALL service is true service while it lasts; 
Of friends however humble, scorn not one: 
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, 
Protects the ling’ring dewdrop from the sun. 
— Words-worth. 
AH! let my friendship in the wreath, 
^ Though but a bud among the flowers, 
Its sweetest fragrance ’round thee breathe — 
’Twill serve to soothe thy weary hours. 
— Mrs. Welby. 
TOVE is a sudden .blaze which soon decays; 
^ Friendship is like the sun’s eternal rays; 
Not daily benefits exhaust the flame: 
It still is giving, and still burns the same. 
— Gay. 
T^RIENDSHIP ’S an abstract of love’s noble flame, 
1 ’Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross; 
The next to angel’s love, if not the same; 
As strong as passion is, though not so gross: 
It antedates a glad eternity, 
And is a heaven in epitome. —Katherine Phillips. 
'P'RIENDSIIIP is a plant of heavenly birth, 
Constant its nature, and immense its worth, 
Its essence virtue, and is known to rest, 
And glow most warmly in the virtuous breast! 
_ — Praltent. 
ly'RIENDSHIP is the cement of two minds, 
* As of one man the soul and body is; 
Of which one cannot sever but the other 
Suffers a needful separation. 
— Chapman. 
