Peach Dlassom, 
JPersica vulgaris, Narurat Orver: Rosacee—Rose Family. 
ATIVE to Persia, the Peach is one of the most delightful of 
fruit trees. The different named varieties, numbering nearly 
‘two hundred, have been mostly produced by a process called 
hybridizing, to which nurserymen pay assiduous attention. 
Se . ——_ NN # The flowers most frequently seen are a beautiful rose tint. 
There are those, however, that are pure white, and also a 
~ double variety. In size they are a little larger than the blossom of 
$e the cherry. The fruit is among the most delicious bestowed upon 
RS man, and its medicinal ‘properties are considered healthful, nutritious, 
> and cooling to the system. The bark of the tree, the blossoms, and the 
* skins of the seeds, are poisonous, being highly impregnated with 
prussic acid, whieh is distinguishable even in the odor of the flowers. 
In Great Britain the Peach is usually cultivated and trained against 
| a south wall, in order to have the fruit ripen rapidly, the seasons 
er being too inclement for it to be grown in large orchards, as it is 
‘found in the United States, where its cultivation forms a considerable industry. 
4 am Your Captive, 
UT an imprison’d mind, though living, dies, 
And at one time feels two captivities: 
A narrow dungeon which her body holds, 
But narrower body, which herself enfolds. 
—Dr. King. 
HEY chain’d us each to a marble stone, We could not see each other’s face, 
And we were three—yet each alone; But with that pale and livid light 
We could not move a single pace, That made us strangers in our sight. 
—Byron. 
AKE haste and lock the fetters over him, 
Lest Zeus behold thee lagging. 
—Mrs, Browning. 
HE meant to weave me a snare To entangle me when we met, 
Of some coquettish deceit, To have her lion in a silken net, 
Cleopatra-like, as of old, And fawn at a victor’s feet. IE 
— Tennyson, Yi 
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