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Marigold, 
: Gagetes erecta. Narurar Orver: Composite — Aster Family. 
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SSF ARIGOLDS are mostly herbs of tropical America, and 
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one-ninth of all flowering plants. The Tagetes is named in 
honor of Tages, an Etrurian deity, a grandson of Jupiter, 
“who is said to have sprung from the plowed earth, in the 
form of a boy, and taught the Etrurians the art of foretelling events, 
or divination. A description of so familiar a plant is almost un- 
necessary, aS everyone must know it has the yellowest of flowers 
and an abundance of them, interspersed with plumy foliage. The 
French Marigold has dark, velvety blossoms, which, varying through 
the different shades of maroon, are really pretty. All the varieties 
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Cructty, 
FT those whose cruelty makes many mourn, 
Do by the fires which they first kindle burn. 
—Earl of Sterline, 
O counsel from our cruel wills can win us, OU are more inhuman, more inexorable, 
But ills once done, we bear our guilt within us. O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania. 
—Fohn Ford. —Shakespeare. 
WY didst thou fling thyself across my path? 
My tiger spring must crush thee in its way, 
But cannot pause to pity thee. —Maturin. 
ET me be cruel, not unnatural; ANTASTIC tyrant of the amorous heart, 
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! 
—Shakespeare, —Prior, 
HOU art come to answer 
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, 
Incapable of pity, void and empty 
From ev’ry drachm of mercy. 
—Shakespeare, 
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