Spiuta loluita. Natural Order: Rosacea — Rose Family. 
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SLpiRyEA, so called probably because of the spiral shape of the 
pod-cells, is a blossom from nature’s wild bouquet, and is tound 
waving its head amid the tall grass of the western prairies. It 
was formerly called the Siberian Red Spiraea, and is remarkable 
k, for its beauty, growing frequently from six to seven feet high. 
Ipt It blooms freely, the flowers being a deep rose-color. It is a 
sister plant of the Meadow Sweet, the Pride of the Meadow, the 
Goat’s-beard, and several other of the Spirasas that are cultivated 
for their flowers, which, in the many varieties, appear during the 
whole summer. _ 
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F OND man! though all the honors of your line 
Bedeck your halls and round your galleries shine 
In proud display, yet take this truth from me — 
Virtue alone is true nobility. —Gifford. 
H OW poor are all hereditary honors, 
Those poor possessions from another’s deeds, 
Unless our own just virtues form our title, 
And give a sanction to our fond assumption! 
— Shirley. 
T TAINGLORIOUS man, when fluttering wind does blow 
* In his light wings, is lifted up to sky; 
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry. 
To think, without desert.of gentle deed 
And noble worth, to be advanced high, 
Such praise is shame, but honor, virtue’s meed, 
Doth bear the fairest flower in honorable seed. 
— Spenser. 
W HOE’ER amid’st the sons 
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, 
Displays distinguish’d merit, is a noble 
Of nature’s own creating. Such have risen, 
Sprung from the dust; or where had been our 
HE noble ranks of fashion and birth 
Are fetter’d by courtly rule; 
Thev dare not rend the shackles that tend 
To form the knave and fool. —Eliza Cook. 
'T'RUE is that whilome that good poet said, 
1 That gentle mind by gentle deed is known, 
For man by nothing is so well bewray’d 
As by his manners in which plain is shown 
Of what degree and what race he is grown. 
— Spenser. 
honories ? 
— Thompson. 
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