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Lemon Dlossom, 
Citrus limonmm. Natura Orver: Auranticee —Orange Family. 
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‘tree of easy culture in any climate (excepting, of course, the 
frigid zone), if given the protection of the house in winter, in 
“ cold latitudes. The foliage is small, glossy, dark and ever- 
green; the flowers similar to the orange, and very fragrant. 
The fruit, as everyone knows, is a beautiful yellow, and is 
# very aromatic, and the pulp is filled with a most excellent, cooling, 
acid juice. When loaded with fruit, such as is to be seen in tropical 
Discretion, 
RUDENCE protects and guides us; wit betrays; 
A splendid source of ill ten thousand ways. 
—Dryden. 
EAR me, Pomona, to thy citron groves, ONSULIT your means, avoid the tempter’s wiles, 
To where the lemon and the piercing lime, Shun grinning hosts of unreceipted files, 
With the deep orange glowing thro’ the green, Let heaven-ey’d prudence battle with desire, 
Their lighter glories blend. —Thompson, And win the victory, though it be through fire. 
—Fames T. Fields. 
UT now, so wise and wary was the knight, 
By trial of his former harms and cares, 
That he decry’d, and shunned still his sight. 
The fish that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. 
— Spenser. 
HUS I shall be fairer to your untried thought, E knows the compass, sail and oar, 
Than if all my living into yours were wrought. Or never launches from the shore; 
Hearts’ dreams are the sweetest in a lonely nest: Before he builds, computes the cost, 
Leave me while you love me—this is surely best! And in no proud pursuit is lost. 
—Howard Glyndon. —Gay. 
ONE pities him that’s in the snare, 
And, warn’d before, would not beware. 
—Herrick, 
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