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(glltoca nisClLia. Natural Order: Hydrophyllacece—Waterleaf Family 
CALIFORNIA is the native seat of this charming little annual, 
which has proved quite attractive and desirable for the various 
shades of the blue flowers, which retain their freshness well 
when severed from the plant for bouquets. There is some 
diversity in their habit, some being erect or almost so, and 
others are represented in botanical works as nearly procum- 
The flowers are tubular bell-shaped, about an inch long, blooming 
in racemes. There are a few novelties in this genus with different 
colored flowers, some of which are biennials. They bloom freely, but 
require a light soil. 
AND his gift, though poor and lowly it may seem to other eyes. 
1 ^ Yet may prove an angel holy, in a pilgrim’s guise. — Whittier. 
ACCEPT of this; and could I add beside 
1 1 What wealth the rich-Peruvian mountains hide; 
If all the gems in eastern rocks were mine, 
On thee alone their glittering pride should shine. 
— Lyttleton. 
T FORM’D for thee a small bouquet, 
A A keepsake near thy heart to lay, 
Because ’tis there, I know full well 
That charity and kindness dwell. 
- Miss Gould. 
PHE prizes not such trities as these are: 
^ The gifts she looks from me are pack’d and lock’d 
Up in my heart, which I have given already, 
But not delivered. —Shakespeare. 
T GAVE the jewel from my breast, 
A She played with it a little while 
As I sailed down into the west, 
Fed by her smile; 
Then weary of it — far from land. 
With sigh as deep as destiny, 
She let it drop from her fair hand 
Into the sea. —Jean Ingelow. 
TT7IN her with gifts, if she respects not words; 
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More quick than words do move a woman’s mind. 
— Shakespeare. 
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