Mzxalis. 
Oxalis floribunda. Naturat Orver: Oxalidacee —Oxalis Family. 
*LMOST everyone is familiar with our native Oxalises, under 
the name of Wood Sorrel, that children are fond of plucking 
for its pleasant acid juice, which, when extracted and concen- 
" trated, is highly poisonous. The name denotes in Greek sour 
02, salt, which is sufficiently appropriate. The foreign species 
My come from Chili, Cape of Good Hope, Europe, and Africa, 
“and are cultivated for their bloom. The root is bulbous, and should 
4 be potted in the fall for winter bloom. Those that have merely fleshy 
>roots bloom in summer, and should always remain in the soil. The 
De bulbous variety should be kept in dry sand during the summer. The 
m oxalic acid of commerce is prepared from saccharine and farinaceous 
substances through the action of nitric acid, and is used for. removing 
spots of iron rust and ink stains from linen or other articles. 
Parental Atfection. 
UT does not nature for the child prepare 
The parent’s love, the tender nurse’s care, 
Who, for their own forgetful, seek his good? 
—Blackmore. 
H! mother’s love is glorifying, OR if there be a human tear 
On the cheek like sunset lying; From passion’s dross refined and clear, 
In the eyes a moistened light, *Tis that which pious parents shed 
Softer than the moon at night! Upon a duteous daughter’s head. 
—Thomas Burbidge. —Scott, 
OMEHOW while lingering to watch you here, 
Thy tyrannous mother-love makes me forget 
All else but that you are divinely dear! 
—Edgar Facett. 
WEET is the image of the brooding dove! Which changes not with dim declining years, 
Holy as heaven a mother’s tender love! The only love which, on this teeming earth, 
The love of many prayers, and many tears, Asks no return for passion’s wayward birth. 
—Mrs. Norton, 
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