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^IdCUiI SlltilXl. Xaturai, Oi!Dp:r: Graminca; — Grass Family. 



\ MILIAR throughout our own and other lands is this tall, 

 ^1 asslike plant. It is grown in large fields for its useful and 

 nutritious seeds, which grow in long, loose panicles. In Scot- 

 and much pains are taken to prepare a meal from it, and 

 when boiled into a mush, as we use cornmeal, or baked into 

 ^- oat cake, Ibrms an excellent article of diet, very wholesome 

 and nutiitious, so that the cannie Scot's time-honored predilection for 

 oatmeal is found based upon sound physiological principles. The 

 whole seed is used everywhere as food for horses and cattle. It is 

 said to flourish in cold, hut to degenerate in warm, climates. 



ioutilr^ Jif^. 



I'LL cull the farthest mead for tliy repast; 

 ■• The choicest I to thv hoard \\\\\ bring, 

 And draw thy water from tlie freshest spring. 



'T'HERE health, so wild and gay, with bosom bare 

 •*■ And rosy cheek, keen eye, and flowing hair 

 Trips with a smile the breezy scene along. 

 And pours the spirit of content in song. 



-Pindn, 



, ATATURE I'll court in her sequestered haunts, 

 By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell, 

 Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, 

 And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. 

 —SiHoUet. 







UR fields .are full with the time-ripened grain, 

 Our vineyards with the purple clusters swell; 

 r golden splendor glimmers on the main. 

 And vales and mountains her bright glory tell. 







HOW canst thou renounce the boundless store 

 Of charms which nature to her votary yields; 

 le warbling woodland, the resounding shore, 

 The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields. 

 ^Kentlie. 



Wl 



—Lord Thurlov. 

 E be a cot beside the hill; 



A beehive's hum shall sootlie my ear; 

 ivillowy brook, that turns a mill. 

 With manv a fall shall linger near. 









F1ELD.S, O woods, 



shall I be made 



The happy tenant of your shade.' 



