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Strawherry, 
Sragaria vesta, Narurar Orper: Rosacee— Rose Family. 
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1G VER welcome to our tables, the Strawberry is one of the earliest, 
¢3, Most abundant and best known of our fruits, and requires but 
little description or commentary. We have many varieties 
of this plant growing wild in meadows and on the hillsides 
throughout the United States and British America. The 
Alpine or English Strawberry is found chiefly in cultivation. 
) The fruit is conical, scarlet, and fragrant, and gleams brightly amidst 
its triple leaves. We are indebted to this order of plants for a great 
variety of our fruits, namely, the peach, pear, apricot, apple and cherry, 
as well as the blackberry and various raspberries. The Strawberry is 
peculiar, in having its seeds on the outside of the fruit, instead of 
being surrounded by the pulp. 
Perfect Goodness. 
HY purpose firm is equal to the deed: 
Who does the best his circumstance allow 
Does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more. 
—Young. 
OWE'ER it be, it seems to me HE words which thou hast utter’d 
'Tis only noble to be good; Are of thy soul a part; 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, And the good seed thou hast scatter’d 
And simple faith than Norman blood. Is springing in my heart. 
—Tennyson. —Whittier. 
E was too good to be 
Where ill men were; and was best of all 
Amongst the rarest of good ones. —Shakespeare. 
a Niece preach’d the humble Strawberry. Behold So plain be thou and meek, 
The lowliest and least adorn’d of flowers And when vain man shall seek, 
Lies at thy feet; yet lift my leafy fold, Unveil the blooming fruit of solitary hours. 
And fruit is there unfound in gaudier bowers. —Evans, 
My heart 
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. 
—Milton. 
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