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MALLOW. 
BENEFICENCE 
T - plan! : ~ used by the C "-v-.eks and Romans 
as an article of diet, as it ic still by the people of 
Eg; From this sjaci 'ation of Job: 
" V ... . ?ws by tr .:- lea and juniper- 
roc eir meat 1" we learn that it afforded food 
in the earliest times to those wandering tribes, which 
chose rather to pitch their tents in the wilderness 
and to depend on the spontaneous gifts of Bountiful 
Nature, than to dwell in permanent habitations and 
to labour fcr their support. 
The common mallow, the friend of the poor man, 
grows naturally beside the brook that quenches his 
tl ; 'st, and around the hut in which he dwells; and 
it borders the road-sides in most parts of Europe, 
Though it continues la blossom from the month ol 
May to the end of October, yet its lowers never tire 
the eye, their petals being of a deiicc.te, reddish, 
purple, sometimes varying to a whitish, or inclining 
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