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Thorn Apple. 
Datura stramonium. Narurar Orver: Solanacee—Nightshade Family. 
S™.ATURA is a formation from the Arabic name, and the fruit 
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of the plant is called by botanists Thorn Apple, which 
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should not be confounded with the berries or apples of 
* the thorn tree. The varied properties of this order of plants 
are highly important, for, although the most of them are dan- 
gerously poisonous, yet they form both food and medicine for man. 
The fruits of the egg-plant, tomato, and the tuber of the potato, are 
excellent and wholesome food, while the hyoscyamus, atropa and Da- 
tura are invaluable in medicine. Every part of the Thorn Apple, or 
Datura, is a deadly poison. It is used in asthmatic aflections, but 
should be administered only by a careful physician. The flowers, 
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common name is Jimson or Jamestown Weed, and as such it is found 
‘ which are trumpet-shaped, are white, slightly tinged with purple. 
wild on the commons. There are, however, several handsome varieties for gar- 
den culture, from foreign countries, that are worthy of attention. 
Decsittul Charms, 
| SHOULD not like the gloss were past, 
Yet want it not entirely new, 
But bright and strong enough to last 
About —suppose a week or two.  —/oore. 
EAUTY is but a vain and doubtful good, 
A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly, 
A flower that dies when first it ’gins to bud, 
A brittle glass that's broken presently; 
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. 
— Shakespeare. 
lee when the buds expand the leaves are green. 
Then the first opening of the flower is seen; 
Then come the honeyed breath and rosy smile, 
That with their sweets the willing sense beguile; 
But as we look, and love, and taste, and praise, 
And the fruit grows, the charming flower decays. 
—Crabbe. 
HE spoke, and lo! her loveliness 
Methought she damaged with her tongue; 
And ever) sentence made it less, 
—Fean Ingelow. ( f 
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So false they rung. 
