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Datiua stnimoiliimi. Natural Order: So/a//> 



-i\ig/ds/unh' Fa, 



I'^ATURA is a formation from the Arabic name, and the fruit 

 of the plant is called by botanists Thorn Apple, \\hicli 

 /"' should not be confounded with the berries or apples ol" 

 the thorn tree. The varied properties of this order of plants 

 •" are highly important, for, although the most of them are dan- 

 gerously poisonous, yet they form both food and niediiine for man. 

 'I'he fruits of the egg-plant, tomato, and the tuber of the jiotato, are 

 e?a'ellent and wholesome food, while the h}-oscvamus, atropa and Da- 

 tura are invaluable in medicine. E\ery part of the Thorn Apple, or 

 Datura, is a deadly poison. It is used in asthmatic affections, but 

 should be administered only b\' a careful jilusician. l"he flowers, 

 which are trumpet-shaped, are white, slightly tinged with juirple. The 

 common name is Jimson or Jamestown Weed, and as sucli it is found 

 wild on the commons. There are, howe\'er, several handsome x'arieties for gar- 

 den culture, from foreign countries, that are worth\' of attention. 



I .SHf)l:I,n not like the glo>s ucre pn 



But lii-ight ami strong enough to la-t 



About — suppose a week (ir two. —.\roor.:. 



■pEAl-TV is but a vain and doubtful good, T O! « hen the buds expand the leaves are greei 

 A shining gloss that tadeth suddenly, 'I'hen the li) st opening ol' the flower is seen; 



A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud, Then come the honeyed breath and rosy smile, 



A brittle glass that's broken presently; That with their sweets the willing sense beguile; 



A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flow er. But as we look, and love, and taste, and praise, 



I.ost, laded, broken, dead within an hour. And the fruit grows, the charming flower decays 

 - Shali.r.-J;ar,'. - Crahh: 



OlIE spoke, and lo! her loveliness 

 ^ Metliought she damaged wilh her tongue; 

 And every sentence made it less, 

 .So false they rung. ^Jemi Ingelov: 

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