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Coriander, 
Coriandrum sativum. Natura Orver: Ombellifere—Parsley Family. 
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=i; ORTIONS of Southern Europe along the coast of the Medi- 
terranean, and the East generally, are the native seats of the 
Coriander in a wild state; but the cultivated varieties are to 
be found in all countries. The seeds, for which it is grown, 
“4 are very aromatic, and are used by confectioners in manufac- 
‘2S turing many of their sweets, they being passed through some 
aN process by which their exterior is covered with a coating of sugar, 
fyef, each seed still retaining its individuality. The leaves of the plant are 
7, much divided; the flowers are white, grouped in umbels, and bloom in 
,the month of July. : 
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Merit, 
1 HE sweet eye-glances that like arrows glide, 
The charming smiles that rob sense from the heart, 
The lovely pleasaunce, and the lofty pride, 
Cannot expresséd be by any art. — Spenser. 
H! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem aie what there can, I will be just; 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! My fortune may forsake me, not my virtue: 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem That shall go with me and before me still, 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. And glad me doing well, though I hear ill. 
— Shakespeare. — Fonson. 
| cane only merit constant pay receives; 
Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives. 
—Pope. 
HE noble mind, unconscious of a fault, HE fame that a man wins himself, is best; 
No fortune’s frown can bend, or smiles exalt. That he may call his own. 
2 —Middleton. 
E thou the first, true merit to befriend; 
His praise is lost who waits till all commend. 
—Pope. 
; ITHOUT the stamp of merit, let none presume ERIT like his, the fortune of the mind, 
To wear undeserved dignity. — Shakespeare. Beggars all wealth. —Thompson. i 
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