uiburnum uflUUS. Natural Order: Cafirifoliacecz—Honeysuckle Family. 
IBURNUM or Laurestine is a fine, handsome, evergreen 
shrub, a native of Europe, and in our Northern States is 
9 considered as more adapted for the house than the lawn, 
^6 where it can be placed, in the Southern States. The flowers 
bloom in small clusters, and are scarcely a pure white, having a 
slight tinge of red; they appear in early spring. There is a new, 
sweet-scented variety from China, but it is said to bloom less freely. 
} Some few others are also desirable, and no doubt in a few years they 
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will become thoroughly hardy, as they lack but little of the required 
amount of vigor. . 
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1\/TY heart seems breaking, Philip, as I linger all alone, 
And there comes no sound of comfort save the ocean’s restless moan; 
I stretch my arms to heaven, and pray for your return, 
But the hope that dies, and the love that lives, can only pant and yearn. 
—Christian Reid. 
'T'HERE, as she sought repose, her sorrowing heart 
-*■ Recall’d her absent love with bitter sighs; 
Regret had deeply fix’d the poison’d dart, 
Which ever rankling in her bosom lies: 
In vain she seeks to close her weary eyes, 
Those eyes still swim incessantly in tears; 
Hope in her cheerless bosom fading dies, 
Distracted by a thousand cruel fears, 
While banish’d from his love forever she appears. 
— Mrs. Tig he. 
A BOAT at midnight sent alone 
1 1 To drift upon the moonless sea, 
A lute whose leading chord is gone, 
A wounded bird that hath but one 
Imperfect wing to soar upon, 
Are like what I am without thee. 
— Moore. 
TP AIR tree of winter! fresh and flowering, 
When all around is dead and dry; 
Whose ruby buds, though storms are lowering, 
Spread their white blossoms to the sky. 
Green are thy leaves, more purely green 
Through every changing period seen; 
And when the gaudy months are past, 
Thy loveliest season is the last. —Montgomery. 
