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illtUtl)a uiliMs. Natural Order: Labiat.t — Mint Family. 



■ijEVERAL plants are known under the common name of mint. 

 , the Spearmint being probably the most agreeable to the taste. 

 ,j It is used in making sauces for some varieties of meat, especially 

 ; lamb; medicinally it is said to allay fevers, and act against spas- 

 modic affections. The Peppermint is well known through the 

 .R- essences sold by all pharmaceutists. Both plants are nati\es 

 Europe, and affect moist places, frequently growing beside shallow 

 streams and in low, wet meadows, where they seem much more 

 brittle and tender, from the amount of water they suck up into their 

 stems. Either plant grows well in the garden, spreading rapidly by 

 ^ means of their creeping roots. The flowers are purple, and in slender 

 racemes. According to mythology, Minthe, a nymph of the woods 

 streams, and beloved by Hades (Pluto), was turned by Proserpine 

 into one of these plants. 



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IRTUE stands like the 



and all which rolls around 



Drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect. 



COUNT life 

 When life' 



•ill last 

 o'er; 



)_v virtues — these \\ 

 lame-footed race is 

 And these, when earthly joys are past, 

 Shall cheer us on a brighter shore. 



-Mrs. S. J. Hale. 



V 



IRTUE, dear friend, needs no defense; 



mnocence: 



Quivers and bows and poison'd darts 

 Are only used by guilty hearts. 



T riRTUE could see to do what virtu. 



By her own radiant light, though 

 Were in the flat sea sunk. 



would 



im and moon 

 —Milton. 



/^NLY a sweet and virtuous soul, 



Like season'd timber, never gives; 

 But, though the whole world turn to coal, 

 Then chiefly lives. -George Htrberl. 



'T'HE path to peace is virtue; what I show, 

 ^ Thyself may freely on thyself bestow; 



Fortune was ne 

 But set aloft bv 



)rship'd by the wise, 

 usurps the skies. 



—DrvJen. 





