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What use is it to succeed in hybridizing a Hippeastrum procera with a Pancratium Amancaes, after over six hundred attempts in ten years, and then spend three years a-hand-nursing the seedlings, and then your master won't take enough interest in the thing to pay your fare up to London to the exhibition with 'em? That's what 'ud break any man's heart."
A well-known shrub or small tree in forests and hedges in this country. The wood is very dense and close grained. Of this wood, Mr. Scott reports that it is by far the best wood after box that he has had the opportunity of testing. Natural Order Myrtaceae. Eugenia procera, Poir. A tree 20 to 30 feet high, native of Jamaica, Antigua, Martinique, and Santa Cruz.
T. PONTI CENTURIONIS: the centurions were generally men of powerful frame; cf. Veget. 2, 14 centurio elegendus est, qui sit magnis viribus et procera statura; Philipp. 8, 26 centuriones pugnaces et lacertosos; Horat. Sat. 1, 6, 72. MODERATIO: 'a right application'; literally 'a governing'. TANTUM ... NITATUR: cf. 27 quidquid agas agere pro viribus, also 434 quantum possumus.
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