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A genus of forest trees, Fraxinus. The common European Ash is 
the F. excelsior . 
Prudence. 
“Know—prudent, cautious, self- -control, 
Is Wisdom’s root.” 
— Burns. 
E RUDEKCE comes from cultivated judgment ; it means practical wis¬ 
dom. It has reference to fitness, to propriety; it judges of the right 
thing to be done, and of the right way of doing it, in the right time and 
place. 
It caluculates the means, order, time, and method, of doing. 
Prudence learns much from experience, quickened by knowledge. 
“Look forward what’s to come, and back what’s past, 
Thy life will be with praise and prudence graced; 
What loss or gain may follow, thou may’st guess; 
Thou then wilt be secure of good success.” 
— Denham. 
rvjountain Laurel. 
Ambition. 
: . . . . Pling away ambition: 
By that sin fell the angels.” 
“ . . . the brightest fell.” 
— Shakespeare. 
