Cjfliotropium Jperutrianum. Natural Order: Boraginacece—Borage Family. 
ELIOTROPE is a small and elegant shrub about two feet 
high, a native of Peru. The flowers bloom in clusters, and 
are of a delicate lavender or purple tint, with the fragrance 
of vanilla, and are especially desirable for bouquets. It is 
™^^Rsaid that Clyde, who had been loved and deserted by 
‘ Apollo, seeing his attachment for her sister Leucothea, 
. . . . 
pined away, with her eyes gazing continually upon the sun, and was 
<3\©^'q/oat last turned into a flower called Sunflower, or Heliotrope. The 
name is derived from the Greek Helios , sun, and tre-fio , to turn. It 
^^9 is also called Turnsole, from its turning to Sol, the Latin for sun. 
It was introduced into France by Jessieu, about 1740. There are 
several other flowers that follow the course of the sun, the best 
known being probably the common yellow Sunflower. 
J)niuiirm + 
TAEVOTION’S self shall steal a thought from heaven; 
^ One human tear shall drop, and be forgiven. 
— Pope. 
T GIVE thee prayers, like jewels strung 
^ On golden threads of hope and fear; 
And tenderer thoughts than ever hung 
In a sad angel’s pitying tear. 
TN vain doth man the name of just expect, 
1 If his devotions he to God neglect. 
As earth pours freely to the sea 
Her thousand streams of wealth untold, 
So flows my silent life to thee, 
Glad that its very sands are gold. 
— Rose Terry. 
Sir J. Denham. 
' LOVE her for that loving trust A love that smiles away all tears, 
1 That makes the one she loves all just, And looks not way beyond these years, 
And faith that’s blind in loving; To see what love is proving. —c. C. C. 
/ANE grain of incense with devotion offered 
^ ’S beyond all perfumes or Sabaean spices 
By one that proudly thinks he merits it. 
— Massinger. 
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