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garnish the spray of this shrub during the whole 
winter, affording food to the bullfinch and 
thrush, and a 
Fit dwelling for the feathered throng, 
Who pay their quit-rents with a song. 
GREEN. 
“ Why,” said a young mother of a family 
to the pastor of the village, “ why did you not 
plant a strong palisade of thorns in the place of 
this hedge of flowering privet which surrounds 
your garden?’’ The pastor replied, “ when 
you prohibit your son from joining in dangerous 
pleasures, the prohibition issues from your lips 
with a tender smile; your look caresses him; 
and, if he murmur, your maternal hand offers 
him a toy to console him; so the pastor’s 
hedge ought not to injure, but while it keeps 
off those who would intrude, it should offer 
flowers though it repels them.’’ 
PRUDENCE. 
SERVICE TREE, 
October is drawn in a garment of yellow and car- 
nation ; in his left hand a basket of services, medlars, 
and other fruits that ripen late. PEACHAM. 
Every tree and every plant has a physi- 
ognomy which is proper to itself, and which 













