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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, January 23, 1959
Buds
AND
Blossoms
By
MAMIE MILLER
“And brought a mixture of
mynh and aloes.” John 19:39.
Nicodemus carried aloe to em
balm the body of Jesus. Egyptians
used it for embalming. It is used as
a medicine for horses. It is very
bitter.
Aloe is a fleshy leafy rosette,
with tubular red flowers, tipped
with green. It resembles the cen
tury plant. They grow off the coast
of east Africa near the Red Sea.
All of the plant is a purgative. It
is used for rheumatism, also dif
ferent nationalities use it for
purging odors around the dead.
In America we have a century
plant that only blooms once in
100 years. The bark is used for
furniture.
Plant dogwood, redbuds, and
other trees from woods from De
cember until the end of February.
Always put out trees when the
leaves have fallen.
Plant gerberas indoors now. They
will germinate in about two ^eeks.
Make division from old plants.
Cover with oak leaves if you put
the plants out.
In July or August plant spider-
lilies. Plant white spiderlilies in
the spring.
You cannot root nandina cut
tings. Plant the seed; or plant the
shrub.
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Redbuds, dogwoods and other
flowering trees bloom Sparingly
because of too rapid growth. Do
not feed with Nitrogen.
Plant Bristol Fairy Babybreath
in soil that has plenty of lime. Do
not break the roots when trans
planting.
Plant perennial seed in May.
Plant pachysandra, ivy, ajuga or
gill in shady spots in yard, such as
an oak.
THE ALOE PLANT
Have you heard the tale of the aloe
plant,
■ Away in the sunny clime?
By humble growth of a hundred
years
It reaches its blooming time;
And then a wondrous bud at its
crown
Breaks into a thousand flowers;
This floral queen in its blooming
seen
Is the pride of the tropical
bowers;
But the plant to the flower is a
sacrifice.
For it blooms but once, and in
blooming dies.
Have you heard the tale of the
Pelican,
The Arab’s Gomel el Bahr,
That dwells in the African
solitudes
Where the birds that live lonely
are?
Have you heard how it loves its
tender young,
And cares and tolls for their
good?
It brings them water from
fountains afar
And fishes the sea for their food.
In famine it feeds them what love
can desire—
The blood of its blossom—and
feeding them, dies.
Have yott heard the tale they tell
of the swan.
The snow white bird Of the lake?
It noiselessly floats on the silvery
wave,
It silently sits in the wake;
For it saves its song till the end of
life.
And then, in the soft, still even,
'Mid the golden light of the setting
sun
It sings as it soars into heaven.
And the blessed notes fall back
'' from the skies—
’Tis its only song, for in singing
it dies.
You have heard the tale. Shall I
tell you one,
A greater and better one than
all?
Have you heard of Him whom the
heavens adore.
Before whom the hosts of them
fall?
How He left the choirs and
anthems above
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perhaps, he saw beauty where
beauty didn’t exist, just like the
teen-age girls who picks out a skin
ny kid with pimples, and sees in
him the qualities of a Rock Hudson
or a Pat Boone.
New Bern, to this kindly man,
was a child’s smile on a tree-shaded
street. It was the spell of rivers—
slow - moving rivers taking their
own sweet time in getting to the
sea. It was many, many things. As
for “Pop”— he was old age at its
wonderful best.
For earth in its wailings and
woes.
And suffered the shame and pain
of the cross
To die for the life of His foes.
His death is our life. His loss is
our gain.
The joy for the tear-the peace for
the pain.
—Dr. Henry Harbough.
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