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(Sscatlonta nibra. Natural Order: Saxifragacece — Saxifrage Family. 
UITE an acquisition to the flora ot our Southern States will 
be made whenever these plants shall become naturalized 
there. They are native of South America, and are con¬ 
fined exclusively to mountainous regions. In cold climates 
1 all the Escallonias (of which there are about seven genera 
S and sixty species) are confined entirely to the greenhouse or con¬ 
servatory, but where the temperature is warm or comparatively mild 
they survive the winter in open air. They are shrubby in growth; 
the leaves are evergreen, appearing alternately on each side of the 
branches; the blossoms are scarlet, white or pink, and are delicate 
and waxy in texture. The plants require a light and friable soil, and 
are said to bloom and thrive best when planted in the ground in the 
conservatory. 
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O PINION is that high and mighty dame 
Which rules the world; and in the mind doth frame 
Distaste or liking; for, in human race, 
She makes the fancy various as the face. 
— H<rwel. 
0 
H, breath of public praise, 
Short-lived and vain! oft gain'd without desert, 
As often lost unmerited. —Harvard. 
o pn 
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[PINION, the blind goddess of fools, foe 
To the virtuous, and only friend to 
Undeserving persons. —Chapman. 
H 
E lov’d his kind, but sought the love of few; 
And valued old opinions more than new. 
— Park Benjamin. 
TET 
T 
ET not opinion make thy judgment err; 
he evening conquest crowns the conqueror 
—Lady Alimony. 
ATET in opinions look not always back; 
^ Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track. 
o pi: 
v/ r ; 
PINION governs all mankind, 
Like the blind’s leading of the blind. 
-O. TV. Holmes. 
— Butler. 
A 
AH, he sits on high in all the people’s hearts; 
^ And that which would appear offense in us. 
His countenance, like richest alchemy, 
Will change to virtue and to worthiness. 
— Shakespeare. 
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