(Slcragnus ClfgCUka. Natural Order: Elceagnacecc—Oleaster Family. 
SILVER -LEAVED Oleaster is a native of Missouri, and is con¬ 
sidered a shrub worthy of introducing into ornamental shrubberies. 
The foliage is handsome, and covered with a silvery scurf; the 
branches are red. In Europe there is a variety cultivated which 
Ills produces a fruit having, when dried, much the flavor of the 
date. It is of a reddish color, and about the shape and size 
of a plum. It is called Elmagnus angustiflora, or Narrow-leaved 
Oleaster. Several other of the species are worthy of attention, one 
being an evergreen variety from the East Indies. The botanical 
name seems to imply, in Greek, upright olive — a significance retained 
in the vernacular, which is derived from the Latin. 
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ROVIDENCE, not niggardly, but wise, 
Here lavishly bestows, and there denies, 
That by each other’s virtues Ave may rise. 
— Granville. 
Z”' O mark the matchless Avorking of the power 
^ That shuts Avithin the seed the future floAver; 
Bids these in elegance of form excel, 
In color these, and those delight the smell; 
Sends Nature forth, the daughter of the skies, 
To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. 
— Cowper. 
T'HERE, when the tangled Aveb is all explained, 
Wrong suffered, pain inflicted, grief disdained, 
Man’s proud, mistaken judgments and false scorn 
Shall melt like mists before the uprising morn, 
And holy truth stand forth serenely bright, 
In the rich flood of God’s eternal light! 
— Mrs. Norton. 
T T E that doth the ravens feed, 
A -*■ Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age. — Shakespeare. 
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’IIO is it that Avill doubt 
The care of heaven? or think th’ immortal 
PoAv’rs are slow, ’cause they take the privilege 
To choose their OAvn time, Avhen they Avill send 
Their blessings doAvn. —Davenant. 
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man; thus calls him through this actual form 
Of nature, through religion’s fuller noon, 
Through life’s beAvildering mazes, to observe 
A Providence in all! —Ogilvie. 
