SUCCORY. 



" God has given a kindlier power to the favoured Strawberry flower, 

 When the months of Spring are fled, hither let us bend our walk ; 

 Lurking berries ripe and red, there will hang on every stalk, 

 Each within its leafy bower ; and for that promise spare that flower !" 



And who would not join in the intreaty of the child to spare 

 a flower which should produce so rich a fruit as the Straw- 

 berry, whose worth can only be expressed fully by the words. 

 Perfect Excellence ! 



The good Bishop Mant, in his Wreath of April flowers, has 

 not forgotten this, which he speaks of as, 



" With milk-white flowers, whence soon shall swell 

 Rich fruitage, to the taste and smell 

 Pleasant alike, the Strawberry weaves 

 Its coronets of three-fold leaves, 

 In mazes through the sloping wood." 



SUCCORY iCichormm l7ttybtis).-'—F'B.'\]GAlA'TY. 



This plant, and such like, were highly esteemed by the 

 Egyptians, and we are told that they constitute half the food 

 of that people of the present day. It was part of the repast 

 of the poet Horace ; the leaves are much used by the 

 French as a winter salad, and its roots enter largely into 

 the compounds which are sold as coffee, in England ; to 

 such an extent, indeed, that we have been assured by a 

 most respectable dealer, that we never obtain genuine Coffee 

 unless we specially stipulate for it when making a purchase. 

 Succory, or Chicory as it is commonly called, is a cheap 

 article, and hence its use is a frugal practice. 



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