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Mirabilis Jalapa. Natural Orver: Wyctaginacee—Four-o’clock Family. 
T is from the roots of this plant, which is a native of the 
West Indies, that the Jalap of commerce is obtained. The 
stem is about two feet high, having numerous branches, with 
smooth, oval, pointed leaves, and tuberous root. Its flowers 
are large, blooming in clusters, very sweet and fragrant, and 
various in colors. This, with the few species from Mexico, 
all open about the time of day their name indicates, and continue a 
perfect succession of bloom during the whole summer. The plants 
bloom better the second year, if the roots are removed to a dry cellar 
during the winter, kept from frost, and replanted in the spring. 
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Es not to live long, but to live well; 
How long we live, not years, but actions tell. 
i —-Watkyns. 
IME is a feathered thing, Fa is long and time is fleeting, 
And whilst I praise And our hearts, though stout and brave, 
The sparkling of thy locks, and call them rays, Still, like muffled drums, are beating 
Takes wing. —Mayne. Funeral marches to the grave. 
—Long fellow. 
IME, as he passes, has a dove’s wing, 
Unsoiled and swift, and of a silken sound. 
—Cowper. 
OUCH us gently, Time! HE hours are viewless angels, 
Let us glide down thy stream That still go gliding by, 
Gently —as we sometimes glide And bear each minute’s record up 
Through a quiet dream. To Him who sits on high. 
—Bryan W. Proctor. —C. P. Cranch. 
VEN such is Time, that takes on trust 
Our youth, our joys, our all we have, 
And pays us with but age and dust; 
Who in the dark and silent grave, 
When we have wandered all our ways, 
Shuts up the story of our days! —sy w. Raleigh, 
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