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functions, but the stem is perfectly white. Nature adopts the 

 same plan in cabbages, by having sufficient leaves to cover up 

 the inner and softer parts, to suit the refined palate of man. 

 Endive is also artificially withered by covering it with tiles ; 

 this softens its flavor, and preserves its leaves from the unplea- 

 sant and bitterish taste they have in their natural state. Pota- 

 toes, when sprouting in a dark cellar, throw out weak, slender 

 branches, six, eight, and ten feet in length. We may find from 

 all this, that a careful study of Nature's works will lead us to 

 greater and more important results than we ever dreamed of 

 when the study was first commenced, and is not only pleasant 

 but extremely profitable. 



Marygold. 



Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, 



And Phoebus 'gins arise 

 His steeds to water at those springs. 



On chaliced flowers that lies. 

 And winking Mary-buddes begin 

 _i To ope their golden eyes, 

 With every pretty thing that bin 



My lady sweet arise.' 

 Arise ! arise ! 



Shakspeare. 



This plant is in the class Syngenesia, order Polygamia Nes- 

 sessaria. Its generic characters are: — Receptacles, naked, 

 flat ; down, none ; calyx, many-leaved, nearly equal ; seeds of 

 the disk membranaceous. Its specific character : seeds all 

 boat form ; muricated, bent in. It is an ornamental annual, a 

 great favorite in our garden, bearing an orange colored flower 

 from June to September. It is a native of Europe. Tyas 

 remarks, that Madame Lebrun, in one of her charming pic- 

 tures, has represented grief as a young man, pale and lan- 

 guishing ; his head appears to be bowed down by the weight 

 of a garland of marygolds. All the world knows this gilded 

 flower, which has been made the emblem of Inquietude, or 

 rather of that distress which is caused by uncertainty as to the 



