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llucca ftlainmtasa. Natural Order: Liliacece —Lily Family. 
• EAR-GRASS is a common synonym for Yucca, the aboriginal 
name of this plant, which compares not unfavorably with 
the Aloe among foliage plants. The leaves are stiff and 
sharp-pointed, forming a mass some two or three feet broad, 
and even more in old plants. There are six or seven species 
or individual plants, differing somewhat in their style of 
foliage, yet with a strong similarity noticeable in them all. 
They do not bloom until quite large, when a tall stem rises from the 
center, from three to four feet high, sometimes producing from “two 
to torn hundred bell-shaped florets. ’ All the species are natives of the 
Southern States, and each and all make a fine and imposing appear- 
J/fty ance in the garden or on the lawn. The Yucca filamentosa has long 
threads trailing from the margins of the sharp-pointed leaves, whence 
it is sometimes called Adam and Eve’s Needle and Thread. 
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/\ MAN in authority is but as 
A candle in the wind, sooner wasted 
Or blown out than under a bushel. 
—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
^"OT from gray hairs authority doth flow, TTE doth not nicely prank 
Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; ^ In clinquant pomp, as some of meanest rank, 
But our past life, when virtuously spent, But armed in steel; that bright habiliment 
Must to our age those happy fruits present. Is his rich valor’s sole rich ornament. 
Denham. — Joshua Sylvester. 
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JTENCEFORTII in my name 
Take courage, O thou woman ! man, take hope! 
Your graves shall be as smooth as Eden’s sward, 
Beneath the steps of your prospective thoughts; 
And one step past them, a new Eden gate 
Shall open on a hinge of harmony, 
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And let you ptrough to mercy. Ye shall fall 
No more, within that Eden, nor pass out 
Any more from it. Live and love,— 
Doing both nobly, because lowlily! 
Live and work,— strongly, because patientlv! 
— Mrs. Browning. 
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