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Mustard, 
Sinapis alba. Narurat Orver: Cracifere—Mustard Family. 
ECEIVED into this country probably from Germany or England, 
fas it is a very ancient European herb, it has always been 
seesteemed as a condiment for the table and for its excellent 
- medical qualities. It is exceedingly prolific, and wherever once 
a s ®% in some parts of America. It is sometimes grown in hotbeds as a salad, 
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sown, will take care of its own reproduction. In England 
Vit is cultivated in quantities for its seed, and on a small scale 
E and the young leaves of the garden Mustard are frequently boiled as 
It sends up a strong, branching stalk, about four feet high, 
The seeds are formed in small, delicate pods, which, when ripe, burst, and 
let their contents scatter over the ground. The seeds are very pungent 
to the taste; but those of the Sinapis nigra, or Black Mustard, are still 
more so; the flour of mustard, the form in which it is used as a condi- 
ment, is a combination of both—two-fifths black, and three-fifths white. The 
pungency is developed only where the flour is brought under the influence of water. 
Quditferencg. 
LAS! my lord, if talking would prevail, 
I could suggest much better arguments 
Than those regards you throw away on me. 
—Young. 
ET me this fondness from my bosom tear; Wearied, at length, I seek thy downy rest — 
Let me forget that e’er I thought her fair; Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, 
Come, cool indifference, and heal my breast; And she shall find indifference conquers love. 
—Lyttleton. 
GRACIOUS person; but yet I cannot love him: 
He might have took his answer long ago. 
— Shakespeare. 
UT in those lands where people are, So beautiful is the song, indeed 
Few men at all take any heed; That twilight loiters hours to hear, - 
fy While still he sings, and from afar, Eavesdropping with a roseate ear. i 
—Edgar Fawcett. 
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