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(Eonuis tlorilta. Natural Order: Cornacecc—Dogwood Family. 
ROWING in our Northern States, and generally throughout 
IP’ the temperate zone, this tree is well known. Anyone living 
near woodlands must be familiar with its white blossoms that 
lie like a pall of snow over the tree. It is about twenty or 
twenty-five feet in height, the body being small and covered 
•P&iik'fr 0 with a rough bark, which possesses excellent tonic properties, 
<%tAblskV similar to the celebrated barks of the cinchona trees of Peru, and 
known as Peruvian or Jesuit’s bark, as it was first introduced into 
medical practice by the missionaries of that society. The name is 
from the Latin cornu , horn, because of the hardness of its wood; 
and Jlorida , flowery. 
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T7 AC1I thought was visible that roll’d within, 
As through a crystal case the figured hours are seen; 
And heaven did this transparent veil provide 
Because she had no guilty thought to hide. 
'T'HERE still exists a rank which far transcends 
-*• The stars and coronets that shine in courts: 
It takes no sounding name to make men stare; 
No blazoning heraldry proclaims its pomp; 
Its modest title is, plain honesty. 
— Dryden. 
Though homely be its garb, though coarse its fare, 
And though it live unnoticed by the crowd; 
Still, spite of fashion’s fools, the honest man 
Is yet the highest noble of the land! 
-Alex Bell. 
TTONOR and glory were given to cherish; 
1 Cherish them, then, though all else should decay; 
Landmarks be these, that are never to perish, 
Stars that will shine on the duskiest day. 
— From the German. 
HPHE gentle mind bv gentle deeds is known, 
For man by nothing is so well bewraved 
As by his manners, in Avhich plain is shown 
Of what degree and what race he is grown. 
— Spenser. 
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TAUT let not all the gold which Tagus hides, 
^ And pays the sea in tributary tides, 
Be bribe sufficient to corrupt thy breast, 
Or violate with dreams thy peaceful rest. 
— Dryden. 
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