Cctgmnia DlllcjCUlS. Natural Order: Cucurbitacece — Gourd Family . 
^NOWN scientifically as Lagenaria, from the Latin lagena , a 
I bottle, the common Bottle Gourd, or Calabash, is familiar to all. 
| It grows like a round ball, gradually extended into a handle. 
|*When ripened, a slice is cut from one side, and the seeds are 
^removed, thus forming a very convenient vessel for dipping 
water, for which purpose it was used in early times. There 
are upward of fifty different kinds of this interesting plant, all of 
them being natives of tropical countries. Some are large and gro¬ 
tesque, others small, fanciful, delicate, beautiful in shape and color, and 
worthy of enthusiastic admiration. Hawthorne said they were “worthy 
of being wrought in enduring marble.” 
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E who, from zone to zone, 
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 
In the long way that I must tread alone 
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Will lead my steps aright. 
AND yet I know past all doubting, truly— 
1 1 A knowledge greater than grief can dim — 
I know, as he loved, he will love duly, 
Yea, better — e’en better than I love him; 
TV/T Y winged boat, 
A bird afloat, 
Swims round the purple peaks remote:— 
Round purple peaks 
It sails, and seeks 
Blue inlets and their crystal creeks, 
Where high rocks throw, 
Through deeps below, 
PROM the low earth round you, 
Reach the heights above you; 
From the stripes that wound you, 
Seek the loves that love you. 
— William Cullen Bryant. 
And as I walk by the vast, calm river 
The awful river so dread to see, 
I say, “Thy breadth and thv depth forever 
Are bridged bv his thoughts that cross to me.” 
—Jean Ingelow. 
A duplicated golden glow. 
Far, vague, and dim, 
The mountains swim; 
While on Vesuvius’ misty brim, 
With outstretched hands 
The gray smoke stands, 
O’erlooking the volcanic lands. 
—Thomas Buchanan Read. 
God’s divinest burneth plain 
Through the crystal diaphane 
Of our loves that love you. 
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
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