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EDITORIAL NOTES. .^^^w, but are wholesome mealy esculents when 

 ■ I roasted. The children know the flowers better 



Arum Family.— Almost all our readers are ' as "the Preacher in the pulpit," alluding to the 



familiar with the Indian turnip — small roots j slender column of flowers which rises in the 

 from the woods which blister the mouth when ! centre of the hood-like spathe. This is a good 



