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Batatas edulis. Narurar Orver: Convolvulacee —Convoloulus Family. 
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West Indies, and only within a recent period has the culti- 
sys vation of the tubers been attempted save in tropical countries 
or the more remote, warm parts of our Southern States. 
Latterly, however, they have been introduced into the Mid- 
dle States, where they have been successfully grown by first 
starting the plants in hotbeds, and then transplanting them to 
the soil in which they are to grow. The potatoes are protected in dry 
sand during winter. The tubers are pointed, sweet and nourishing. 
The stem is prostrate and creeping, producing purple or white flowers, 
campanulate in shape, and sometimes quite showy. For mere pleasure 
it can be grown in the house by placing a tuber in ‘a vessel partly filled 
with water, when it will reward the cultivator with several quite pretty 
and lengthy vines. If the first should decay before sprouting, it could easily be 
replaced until success crowned perseverance. 
Hidden Qualities, 
HOUGH gay as mirth, as curious thoughts sedate; 
As elegance polite, as power elate; 
Profound as reason, and as justice clear; 
Soft as compassion, yet as truth severe. — Savage. 
| CANNOT soar into the heights you show, ‘Tis yours, not mine, to pluck out of your breast 
Nor dive among the deeps that you reveal; Some human truth, whose workings recondite 
But it is much that high things are to know, Were unattired in words, and manifest, 
That deep things are to feel. And hold it forth to light. 
- = Fean Ing elo. 
HE was the pride eee free and fast, 
Of her familiar sphere — the daily joy And judge him by no more than what you know 
Of all who on her gracefulness might gaze, Ingeniously, and by the right-laid line , 
And in the light and music of her way Of truth, he truly will all styles deserve, 
\ Have a companion’s portion. —wpzis, Of wise, good, just; a man both soul and nerve. f 
Ef 292 — Shirley, fh S 
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