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cave cream-coloured petals; and exhale a peti, binds and to most 
_ persons, delicious odour. see cat them so universally agree- 
the period of their maturity, the women and children in 
urhoc¢ oe of “Philadelphia and New York, resort in great 
umbers to sn swamps where they grow, and cull them to vend 
in hoa irkets. The flowering twigs are put up in bunches, and sold - 
_ cent or two cents — and are. ——— purchased to decorate 
imn aces, in the hou es of all ranks of people. 
arket-places are perfumed at this season, with the spicy scent, 
3 ae. 3 werk are so = yeinarihble They are familiarly 
own in our market, by the name of Magnolia, and rarely by the 
ellation of Small Magnolia.. The emanation from the flowers 
is extremely penetrating. To some persons it is rather unpleasant, 
and to a few, insupportable ; producing uneasiness in the chest, and 
, tendency to nied The late Dr: Barton imputed to this odour, 
the power of increasing the pain of inflammatory gout, and_occa- 
sioning an exacerbation of a diurnal fever. I cannot help suspect- 
me this Lapinion to have’ been, aaa it unis iced. by the geal ‘ion 
hoa an room they a ‘inde 
ada de > persons, or even occasion fainting where 
-as} sy exists in ae ee OR 1 really. believe, DeWeeie that 
these flowers are frequently accused of effects which they have had 
no share in producing: and the almost universal estimation - which 
they are held, sufficiently proves their general innocence. . ~ 
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