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©talis floiibuil^a. Natural Order: OxaUdacca; — Oxalis Family. 



I MOST everyone is familiar with our native Oxalises, under 



lliL name of Wood Sorrel, that children are fond of plucking 



lot itb pleasant acid juice, which, when extracted and concen- 



ti ited, IS highly poisonous. The name denotes in Greek sour 



^ salt, which is sufficiently appropriate. The foreign species 



eome from Chili, Cape of Good Hope, Europe, and Africa, 



cultnated for their bloom. The root is bulbous, and should 



Ik potted in the fall for winter bloom. Those that have merely fleshy 



^^ loots bloom in summer, and should always rtynain in the soil. The 



t^ bulbous \ ai let} should be kept in dry sand during the summer. The 



oxalic acid ot commerce is prepared from saccharine and farinaceous 



substances through the action of nitric acid, and is used for removing 



spots of iron rust and ink stains from linen or other articles. 



JitrEnlnl J^ffrrlion. 



TDUT does not nature for the child prepare 



The parent's love, the tender nurse's care, 

 Who, for their own forgetful, seek his good? 



/^H! mother's love is glorifying, 

 ^ On the cheek like sunset lying; 

 In the eyes a moistened light. 

 Softer tlian the moon at night! 



— Thomas Burbuige. 



—Bhckmnre, 



T^OR if there be a human tear 



From passion's dross refined and cle 

 'Tis that which pious parents shed 

 Upon a duteous daughter's head. 



SOMEHOW while lingering to watch you here. 

 Thy tyrannous mother-love makes me forget 

 11 else but that you are divinely dear! 



OWEET is the image of the brooding dove! 

 ^ Holy as heaven a mother's tender love! 

 The love of tiiany prayers, and many tears. 



Which changes not with dim declining years, 

 The only love which, on this teeming earth, 

 Asks no return for passion's wayward birth. 

 ^Mrs, Noriott. 



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