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GOOD EDUCATION. 
merits demand, until the last debt of nature 
has been paid, and then the marble bust, 
wreathed with hay, is raised to immortalise 
his fame, when his ears are become deaf to 
praise. He seldom receives his honours due 
while he enjoys the beauties of this terrestrial 
globe, and Clare has said, in his address to 
a Poet, 
The bard his glory ne’er receives, 
Where summer’s common flowers are seen, 
But winter finds it, when she leaves 
The laurel only green; 
And Time, from that eternal tree, 
Shall weave a wreath to honour thee. 
GOOD EDUCATION. 
CHERRY TREE. 
It is generally believed that the cherry tree 
was first introduced into Italy, 73 a. c., by 
Lucullus, who obtained it from a town in 
Pontus, in Asia, called Cerasus, from whence 
it derives its specific name. The Romans 
brought it to England, though it is supposed 
that these have all been lost. There is no 
proof that cherries were in England at the 
period of the Norman conquest, nor for some 
time after: but Lydgate, who wrote about 
1415, or before, says that cherries were then 
