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(HagetCS erccta. Natural Order: Compositce — Aster Family. 



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^^^^^'▼^X^k ARIGOLDS are mostly herbs of tropical America, and 



iv belong to the same order as the artemisia, chrysanthemum 



' ^^^o.- and China aster, which order is said to comprehend 



one-ninth of all flowering plants. The Tagetes is named in 



honor of Tages, an Etrurian deity, a grandson of Jupiter, 



w h( 1 is said to have sprung from the plowed earth, in the 



I.7I in of a boy, and taught the Etrurians the art of foretelling events, 



or divination. A description of so familiar a plant is almost un- 



tiecessary, as everyone must know it has the yellowest of flowers 



and an abundance of them, interspersed with plumy foliage. The 



French Marigold has dark, velvety blossoms, which, varying through 



the different shades of maroon, are really pretty. All the varieties 



have a peculiar fragrance, rather balsamic than otherwise. 



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FT those whose cruelty makes many mourn, 

 Do by the fires which they first kindle burn. 



— Earl of Sterline. 



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counsel from our cruel 

 ut ills once done, we bea 



"VrOU are more inhuman, more inexorable, 

 O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcar 

 — Shakespeare 



"ITTHY didst thou fling thyself acr< 

 •'^ My tiger spring must crush th. 

 But cannot pause to pity thee. 



me be cruel, not unnatural; 

 will speak daggers to her, but 



LANTASTIC tyrant of the amorous heart. 

 How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! 



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'pnOU art come to answer 



A stony adversary, an inhuman ■ 

 Incapable of pity, void and empty 

 From ev'ry drachm of mercy. 



—Shaltespea 



