A picked raisin for a sweet banquet of sounds; but I affect not these exotics.

A small crop of tobaccothree hogsheads when the season was good, two when badpurchased the exotics which comfort and necessity required, and which the farm did not produce.

Our present subject is the principal apartment in the Swiss Cottage, to which the reader or visiter is conducted through a range of conservatories, containing choice exotics, with some of the most majestic proportions of leaf and flower that can be enjoyed in any clime.

Youth round thee her garland weaves, Of varied flow'rs and verdant leaves, And leads thee forth in gardens fair, To cull exotics rich and rare.

At the South you will not find a woman cultivating with pain a few exotics beside the front door, while her husband is mowing and burning the far more attractive wild garden that nature has planted just outside the fence.

"They are discussing the rare exotics, sent to us from the South," she thought within herself, and indeed, what other could interest the cold-hearted Delwood?

One of the most shy of wild plants, easily banished from its locality by any invasion, it yet takes to the garden with unpardonable readiness, doubles its size, blossoms earlier, repudiates its love of water, and flaunts its great leaves in the unnatural confinement until it elbows out the exotics.

But they rooted it out bodily, and planted instead an exotic of the schools.

But the brutal manhood of Rome overshadowed and tainted the gentle exotic like a Upas-tree.