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until the last debt of nature has been paid, and 
then the marble bust, wreathed with bay, 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. 
Wrenn 
GOOCD EDUCATION. 
CHERRY TREE, 
Ir is generally believed that the cherry tree 
was first introduced into Italy, 73 a.c., by Lu- 
cullus, who obtained it from a town in Pontus, in 
Asia, called Cerasus, from whence it derives its 
specific name. The Romans brought it to Eng- 
land, 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 exposed for sale in the London market, as 
