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Htbes ntbrum. Natural Order: Grossulariacece — Currant Family. 
fiOTANICALLY named from a misapplied Arabic word, and 
vernacularly from Corinth in Greece, with which it has no 
[fy/ special connection, while even the qualifying Latin epithet, 
rubrum (red) is a misnomer, as not only red but white cur¬ 
rants are included, it must be confessed this excellent shrub 
has been unfortunate in its godfathers. It is, however, quite 
J familiar to everyone, or if not the) 7 have missed one of the blisses 
of childhood in lying under its branches to pluck the bright, gleaming 
fruit, hanging like strung rubies in such clusters and bountiful abundance, 
filled with a healthful and agreeable wine-like juice. The flowers are a 
Id delicate green, and would be pretty if of some brilliant tint. The yellow 
Cur rant, that grows wild in Missouri and Oregon, is grown as a garden 
shrub, for the bright and cheering flowers that appear so early in spring- 
pi time, and like the robin, are among nature’s earliest harbingers of her 
awakening, and of earth’s returning joy. 
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TTER every tone is music’s own, like those of morning birds, 
A 1 And something more than melody dwells ever in her words; 
The coinage of her heart are they, and from her lips each flows, 
As one may see the burden’d bee forth issue from the rose. 
— Edward C. Pinkney. 
'THY words had such a melting flow, 
And spoke the truth so sweetly well, 
They drop’d like heaven’s serenest snow, 
And all was brightness where they fell! 
— Moore. 
AH! simple is the spell, I ween, 
1 1 That doth that grace impart; 
It dwells its own sweet self within — 
It is — a loving heart! 
— Mrs. Osgood. 
ALL are lovely, all blossom of heart and of mind; 
1 *- All true to their natures, as Nature designed; 
To cheer and to solace, to strengthen, caress, 
And with love that can die not to buoy and to bless. 
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■ William Howitt. 
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