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soms, in succession one after another, or two or three at a time. 

 The second lily, is of a paler red, and grows three feet high, 

 and throws out, in succession, eight or ten blossoms; whereas 

 the third species of lily, is yellow, and grows only two feet 

 high with three, and sometimes only two flowers. In their 

 various shades of every color, imperceptibly running into each 

 other, dotted with dark spots, these three species of lily, rival 

 the rainbow in beauty, and truly was it said by our Saviour, 

 of this flower, that " Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed 

 like one of these." They grow in shady, retired places, and 

 seem to avoid the public gaze; fit emblems of the few of our 

 race, who love goodness, for its own sake, reserving their all, 

 for those who best know their real, intrinsic value and worth. 



MEDICINAL PLANTS, AND SUCH AS ARE USED IX THE ARTS. 



The bark of the yellow oak, is not only used in tannino- 

 leather, but it affords a beautiful yellow color, which is perman- 

 ent. It is used much by clothiers for that purpose. The bark 

 of the butternut is used also by dyers, for coloring every shade 

 of brown, to almost a black. An extract prepared from this 

 bark, makes a physic, and its wood, is used by cabinet mak- 

 ers. The bark from the roots of the box tree is a good tonic 

 medicine. The bark of the yellow poplar is used in the same 

 way, and is equally useful and more pleasant to the tast^ 

 The bark of the sesculus flava, (buckeye) is said to be a valu- 

 ble tonic, and its wood macerated fine and soaked in water, is 

 used in the manufacture of paper. Formerly large quantities 

 of ginseng roots were dug, dried, and sent to the eastern cities 

 for sale, bnt it is so no longer. The roots are gone before the 

 hand of cultivation. Seneca snake root, the puccoon, or blood 

 root, and many other roots are still used in medicine. So of 

 the wild ginger, wild ipecac, lobelia, pleurisy root, sweet flag, 

 dodder, and many others. The crab apple is in high repute for 

 a preserve or sweet meat. So of the cranberry, large quanti- 

 ties of which are yearly gathered in the swamps, along the 

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