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Cineraria antelloibes. Natural Order: Composite — Aster Family. 
RIGHT and beautiful, the flower-stalks of this plant raise their 
| aster-like clusters of blossoms well above their broad and 
handsome leaves, in our greenhouses in spring, when flowers 
are scarce, sometimes as many as fifty flowers in a crowning 
mass. The plant has been called Cape Aster, one of the first 
varieties having come from the South of Africa; but as we 
have species now from the colder latitudes of Siberia, as well 
as from the tropical climes of Jamaica and the Canary Isles, that name 
has been almost universally abandoned for the Latin one embracing 
them all. The colors are the various shades of purple or blue, usually 
with a white or lighter ring at the base of the petals. 
T T OW brilliant and mirthful the light of her eye, 
1 A Like a star glancing out from the blue of the sky. 
— Whittier. 
T)RIGHTLY shines the sun today, 
Perhaps it brings but little sorrow; 
We’ll be happy while we may; 
’Twould be folly now to borrow 
Griefs and cares, which may not stray, 
May not darken our tomorrow. 
Sweet content, with winning smiles, 
Brightens every simple pleasure; 
Happiness, with merry smiles, 
Adds its gold to all our treasure; 
Thus our path for many miles 
May be crowned from joy’s full measure. 
-Tamar Anne Kermode. 
T T E is so full of pleasant anecdote, 
So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, 
Time vanishes before him as he speaks, 
And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps. 
T T IS sports were fair, his joyance innocent, 
Sweet without sour, and honey without gall; 
And he himself seem’d made for merriment, 
Merrily masking both in bower and hall. 
— Spenser. 
T17HEN thou art near, 
* * The sweetest joys still sweeter seem, 
The brightest hopes more bright appear, 
And life is all one happy dream, 
When thou art near. —Robert Sweney. 
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