. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. Sv (JlttifUS bdtCtttcl. Natural Order: TaxaceceâTew Family. â ^ITH a trunk of large girth, and broad-speading branches, the ^ European Yew is a tree of low stature. Associated, as it nearly always is, with the burial places of the dead, it has among all nations become an acknowledged emblem of sorrow. Either through the nourishme
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. Sv (JlttifUS bdtCtttcl. Natural Order: TaxaceceâTew Family. â ^ITH a trunk of large girth, and broad-speading branches, the ^ European Yew is a tree of low stature. Associated, as it nearly always is, with the burial places of the dead, it has among all nations become an acknowledged emblem of sorrow. Either through the nourishment * of the soil be- coming wholly exhausted, or because of the shadow cast by its foliage, little if anything grows beneath its shade; and an old idea is, that to sleep beneath its branches benumbs or stupefies the brain. The Latin synonym is derived from the original Greek name taxos. On account of its pernicious qualities the ancient poets, as Ovid, Silius and Lucanus, considered it the "tree of the infernal ; There are some fifty species scattered throughout the temperate zone, several of them being mere shrubs. The Dwarf Yew, or Ground Hemlock, is found in Canada and our Northern States, inhabiting a rocky soil and shady, cool places, where it grows to a height of about three feet. It produces a small, red, waxy-looking berry, open at the top, which surrounds a single black icrruta* PAST sorrows, let us mod'rately lament them; For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. â Weljster, rjNE fire burns out another's burning; One desp'rate grief cure with another's languish; ^"' One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Take thou some new infection to the eye. Turn giddy, and be help'd by backward turning; And the rank poison of the old will die. I âShakespeare. r breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, Yet it consumes the heart. âSheridan. XMAZ'T) he stands, nor voice nor body stirs; Oppress'd with grief, his passion had no bound; Words had n
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