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f~fencl] looney^UcKJ©. 
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their 
beauty , and some for their fragrance. ( Lonicera ,—Woodbine; False 
Honeysuckle, Azalea; French Honeysuckle, Uedysarum Coronium). 
Around in silent grandeur stood 
The stately children of the wood; 
Maple and elm and towering pine 
Mantled in folds of dark Woodbine. 
—Julia C. R. Dorr. 
Love for Rural Beauty. 
Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store 
Of charms which Nature to her votary yields: 
The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, 
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; 
All that the genial ray of morning gilds. 
And all that echoes to the song of even, 
All that the mountain’s sheltering bosom shields, 
And all the dread magnificence of heaven: 
Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven? 
— Beattie. 
FF you are a parent, teach your children to love the beautiful. Give 
-f- them a comer in the garden for flowers; allow them to have their 
favorite trees; teach them to wander in the prettiest woodlets; show them 
where they can best view the sunset; rouse them in the morning to view the 
beautiful sunrise. 
We are prone to make our lives too commonplace and monotonous, 
and to plod, as a modern writer expresses it, in a matter-of-fact-way, for¬ 
getting that there is anything higher than our every day tasks. 
In this condition we only half live; our eyes are not lifted from the 
