Eupatorium. 
The Eupatorium elegans is admitted to the greenhouse for its frag¬ 
rant flowers, which are white; the Eupatorium aromaticum, also admired 
for its odor, has flowers of the same color, which bloom in the fall. —They 
are said to have been named for Mithridates the Great (also called Eupa- 
tor, that is, of a noble father, or well born), king of Pontus, who, according 
to history, brought about a war with the Romans. 
Delay. 
“Hoist up sail while gale doth last, 
Tide and wind stay no man’s pleasure; 
Seek not time when time is past, 
Sober speed is wisdom's leisure; 
After-wits are dearly bought, 
Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought.” 
—Robert Southwell. 
''p* HERE is surely no greater wisdom, says Lord Bacon, than well to time 
A- the beginnings and onsets of things. Dangers are no more light, if 
they once seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced 
them: nay, it is better to meet some dangers half-ivay, though they come 
nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon approaches; for if a man 
watch too long, it is odds that he will fall asleep. 
On the other side, to be deceived with too long shadow’s (as some 
have been when the moon was low, and shown on their enemies’ back), and 
so to shoot off before the time; or to teach dangers to come on by over early 
buckling towards them, is another extreme. The ripeness or unripeness 
of the occasion must be very well weighed; and generally it is good to com¬ 
mit the beginnings of all great and important actions to Argus with his 
hundred eyes, and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands ; first to 
