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'\W)^ REEDS. 



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a ruined wall. The indigenous Valerians of our fields and 

 woods possess as many virtues and beauties as this ; but the 

 gardener neglects them, because they do not offer the same 

 readiness and facility to his nurturing hand. 



REEDS.— Music. 



" the mingling sounds that come, 

 Of shepherd's ancient reed." — MoORE. 



Pan, who was devotedly fond of the fair Syrinx, pursued 

 her one day upon the banks of the river Ladon, in Arcadia. 

 The nymph intreated the river to help her, when she was 

 received into the stream, and became transformed into Reeds. 

 Pan cut several of the Reeds, of different sizes, and formed 

 of them, as we are told, the first shepherd's pipe. Moore 

 tells us that this is still a pastoral instrument of music in 

 Syria. 



REST HARROW {Onoms j;/^/;?^i-rO.— Obstacle. 



This pretty weed may still be found in some parts of the 

 country, although the intelligent and industrious farmer has 

 used his best efforts to banish it. It has strong woody roots, 

 which, when it abounded, were a great obstacle to the steady 

 progress of the plough, as its thorny branches w^ere to the 

 motion of the harrows As food it may be said to be generally 

 ^ rejected by all animals except the ass, wdience its generic 

 name. 



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