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2lristalail)ia s\\l\]0. Natural Order: Aristolocliiacciv — Bi>-t/i%vort Family. 



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ERE is a climbing shrub found in our Middle and Southern 

 States, generally in upland woods, frequently attaining the 

 height of thirty feet or more. The leaves are large and 

 heart-shaped, arranged alternately on each side of the stem. 

 The flowers are particularly striking, blooming singly, each 

 tube being long and turned up in the form of a tobacco-pipe, and of 

 a brownish color. Hence the shrub is frequently called Dutchman's 

 Pipe. The Aristolochia Bonplandi, a fine plant for greenhouse cul- 

 ture, is a native of Patagonia, and, like some two or three others, 

 thrives best in the warm, moist air of the hothouse. The flowers 

 of all have the same peculiar structure ; the- colors are purple or a 

 greenish brown, some of them being beautifully spotted. 



■XrOUR wisdom is most liberal, and knows 

 ^ How fond a thing it is for discreet men 

 To purchase with the loss of their estate 

 The name of one poor virtue, liberality, 

 And that, too, only from the mouth of beggars ! 

 One of vour judgment would not, I am sure, 

 Buy all the virtues at so dear a rate. —Randolj^h. 



■nUT th' earth herself, of her owne motion, 

 Out of her fniitfidl bosome made to growe 

 Most daintie trees, that, shooting up anon. 

 Did seeme to bow their blooming heads full lowe 

 For homage unto her, and like a throne did show. 



T HAVE spent all the wealth 



My ancestors did purchase ; made others brave 

 In shape and riches, and myself a knave : 

 For tho' my wealth rais'd some to paint their door, 

 'Tis shut against me, saying I am poor. 



— Wiliins. 



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'HE feast is such as earth, the general mother. 



Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles 

 the embrace of antumn. —S/ie/fy. 



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