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Coleridge and David Hartley, and my kind remembrance to Lloyd, if he is with you. See preceding letter. Epistle to Arbuthnot: "Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope." The lines on him which Coleridge had sent to Lamb, and which the latter had burned. January 5, 1797. Sunday Morning. You cannot surely mean to degrade the Joan of Arc into a pot-girl.
The rest of the army at first wandered in their flight through the fields and woods, but afterwards all fled to a city named Cornus, the capital of that district, whither there was a report that their general had fled; and the war in Sardinia would have been brought to a termination by that battle, had not the Carthaginian fleet under the command of Hasdrubal, which had been driven by a storm upon the Balearian islands, come in seasonably for inspiring a hope of renewing the war.
With the plantings thus described, and with the gymnasium surrounded by yet stronger greenery; with the back fence masked by willows, elders and red-stemmed cornus; and with a number of haphazard footpaths reduced to an equally convenient and far more graceful few, our scheme stands complete in its first, but only, please notice, its first, phase.
The common dogwood Cornus florida of the botany appears in bloom insidiously, one might say; for the so-called flowers open slowly, and they are green in color, and easily mistaken for leaves, after they have attained considerable size.
Here and there, breaking the cold monotone, a bush of moose maple shows the white-streaked green of its bare stems and sprays, or cornus or willow gives a soft glow of red, purple or yellow. Only here and there, insists my dream, lest when winter at length gives way to the "rosy time of the year" their large and rustic gentleness mar the nuptial revels of summer's returned aristocracy.
The best work here is entirely done from boxwood, and some Cornus florida is used for less expensive engraving. This wood answers fairly well for coarse work, but it is a difficult wood to manage, splitting, or rather 'checking, very badly in drying." This, however, he states in a later letter, "can be overcome by sawing the logs through the center as soon as cut.
Being quite hardy, and a plant of great interest and beauty, this little known Cornus is sure to be widely planted when better known. Himalayas, China and Japan, 1827. This is an exceedingly handsome species, of tabulated appearance, occasioned by the branches being arranged almost horizontally. The leaves are of large size, elliptic-ovate, and are remarkable for their autumnal tints.
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