Show GRASS Next in importance to the divine pr profusion fusion of water light i and air ai those three great physical facts which render existence exist- exist existence r ence possible may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass Exaggerated by tropical heats and vapors to t the gigantic cane can cons con's congested con- con s G. with its saccharine secretion or dwarfed by polar rigors to j the he fibrous hair hair- of northern solitudes embracing between bebee these tj extremes the maize with its resolute pennons the rice plant of i southern swamps the wheat rye barley oats and other cereals f no less than the humbler verdure of hillside pasture and prairie f in the temperate zone grass is the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings and aud it is at once the type of our life and the thet in the sunshine the buttercups buttercups buttercups but- but i t k emblem of our mortality Lying among and dandelions of May scarcely higher in intelligence r. than the tl e minute tenants of that mimic wilderness our earliest 1 recollections are of grass and when the fitful fever is ended and t the foolish wrangle of the market and und forum is closed grass heals if over ver the scar which our descent into the bosom of the earth has made and the carpet of the infant becomes the blanket of the it dead John J John ohn J. J Ingalls |