Cantona iilmcana. Natural Order: Verbenacece—Vervain Family. 
T is to the tropics that we are indebted for this beautiful 
addition to our flora. The plants are shrubby, and can be 
cultivated in the hothouse or conservatory, or may be placed 
in the garden during summer. It grows very rapidly in the 
ground, and many adopt the plan of placing it in a medium¬ 
sized pot, and putting the pot along with the plant in the 
ground, as that plan curtails the roots and prevents the plant from 
growing too straggling, and thereby rewarding the cultivator with more 
flowers. The blossoms have the peculiarity of coming out one color, 
and passing through different shades to another color; a quality which 
always gives a pleasing aspect to the plant. They are very suscep¬ 
tible to frost. 
F 
ULL many a stoic eye and aspect stern 
Mask hearts where grief hath little left to learn. 
— Byron. 
TI7HY stand’st thou idle here? lend me thy sword! 
v v Many a nobleman is stark and stiff" 
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies, 
Whose deaths are unrevenged. 
— Shakespeare. 
T T IS awful presence did the crowd surprise, 
Nor durst the rash spectator meet his eyes: 
Eyes that confess’d him born for kingly swaj', 
So fierce they flashed intolerable day. 
—Dry den. 
]\ \ EN who their duties know, 
A But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain them. 
— Sir W. “Jones. 
His eye 
Had that compelling dignity, 
His mien that bearing, haught and high, 
Which common spirits fear. —Scon. 
UST not earth be rent 
Before her gems are found? 
— Mrs. Hemans. 
'T'HIS too much lenity 
And harmful pity must be laid aside. 
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? 
Not to the beast that would usurp their den; 
Whose hand is that the forest bear would lick? 
Not his that spoils her young before her face. 
— Shakespeare. 
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