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Opuntia leaves are a splendid remedy for the so-called "bowel complaints of the 

 babies". If our darlings really had the advantage of this, it would indeed be 

 very beneficial; he said that of all of the sraall negro children, which his 

 wife reared at that time, none again died of the above sickness, because of 

 this remedy I (?) 



Relata refero. 



In the open ground of my citron-house I will have blooming in the next 8 days 

 an enormous Agave americana - the only one in Würtemberg since l8k7 . 



