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answered her prayei’s by transforming her in to 
the laurel. Apollo finding that he held nothing 
but a hard tree in his embrace, saluted its vivid 
green leaves with fond kisses, crowned his head 
with its leaves, and ordained that ever after 
that tree should be sacred to his godhead. 
Ovid thus recounts this fact: 
“I espouse thee for my tree; 
Be thou the prize of honor and renown; 
The deathless poet and the poem crown. 
Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, 
And, after poets, be by victors worn.” 
LETTUCE. 
Lactuta . Class 18; Order 1. 
A common garden vegetable. Flowers greenish-white, 
and yellow. 
COLD-HEARTED. 
What matters all the nobleness 
Which in her breast resideth, 
And what the warmth and tenderness 
Her mien of coldness hideth, 
If but ungenerous thoughts prevail 
When thou her bosom wouldst assail, 
While tenderness and warmth do ne’er 
By any chance, toward thee appear? 
C. F. Hoffman. 
