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(HitvuS llieMca. Natural Order: Anranticece — Orange Family. 



Kiiri' or nine feet high in its native seats in tropical climates, 



\W Citron differs but slightly in appearance from the lemon 



ikI orange trees, with which we are familiar, though only 



IS house shrubs. The foliage is evergreen, the flowers resem- 



, 4 bling the orange blossom; the fruit is fragrant, the pulp being 



'^"^ acid like the lemon, and grateful and cooling to the taste. 



The tiees of this class are all easily grown in the conservatory, and 



m Louisiana and Florida in the open air, yielding a delightful perfume 



when m bloom. It gets its distinctive title, medica, from the two 



essential oiK (citron and cedrat) which it yields. 



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O power in deatli shall teai- our names apart, 

 As none in life could rend thee from my heart. 

 —Bv> 



/^OME from the woods with the citron flowers, 

 ^ Come with your lyres for festal hours. 

 Maids of bright Scio! They came, and the breeze 

 Bore their sweet songs o'er the Grecian seas; 

 They came, and Endora stood robed and crowned 

 The bride of the morn, with her train around. 



—Mrs. Hema„s. 



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lEN on thy bosom I recline, 

 Enraptured still to call thee mine, 

 To call thee mine for lite, 

 I glory in the sacred ties. 

 Which modern wits and fools despise, 

 Of husband and of wife. 



— Lindhy Murray. 



'T'HE citron groves their fruit and flowers were strewing 

 Around a Moorish palace, while the sigh 



Of low, sweet summer winds the branches wooing 



With music through their shadowy bowers went by ; 



Music and voices from the marble halls 



Through the leaves gleaming, and the fountain falls. 



ACROSS the threshold led. 



And everv tear kissed off as soon as shed. 





enters, there to be 



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Shining within, when all without is night; 

 A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, 

 Doubling his pleasure, and his cares dividing. ^ 



— Rogers. ^ 



