Mats. 
Avena satiwa. Narurar Orper: Graminee—Grass Family. 
a bd AMILIAR throughout our own and other lands is this tall, 
' grasslike plant. It is grown in large fields for its useful and 
nutritious seeds, which grow in long, loose panicles. In Scot- 
land much pains are taken to prepare a meal from it, and 
when boiled into a mush, as we use cornmeal, or baked into 
Sk oat cake, forms an excellent article of diet, very wholesome 
and nutritious, so that the cannie Scot’s time-honored predilection for 
oatmeal is found based upon sound physiological principles. The 
whole seed is used everywhere as food for horses and cattle. It is 
said to flourish in cold, but to degenerate in warm, climates. 
= Gauntry Jily. 
ieee cull the farthest mead for thy repast; 
The choicest I to thy board will bring, 
And draw thy water from the freshest spring. 
—Prior. 
HERE health, so wild and gay, with bosom bare, ATURE Ill court in her sequestered haunts, 
And rosy cheek, keen eye, and flowing hair, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell, 
Trips with a smile the breezy scene along, Where the pois’d lark his evening ditty chants, 
And pours the spirit of content in song. And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. 
—Pindar. —Smollet. 
UR fields are full with the time-ripened grain, 
Our vineyards with the purple clusters swell; 
Her golden splendor glimmers on the main, 
And vales and mountains her bright glory tell. 
—Lord Thurlow. 
HOW canst thou renounce the boundless store INE be a cot beside the hill; 
Of charms which nature to her votary yields; A beehive’s hum shall soothe my ear; 
The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, A willowy brook, that turns a mill, 
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields. With many a fall shall linger near. 
—Beattie. —Rogers, 
FIELDS, O woods, O when shall I be made 
f \ The happy tenant of your shade? —Cowley. 
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