SUNFLOWER. 199 
tening domestic poultry. In the United States of 
America, the Sunflower is cultivated on a large scale, 
for the purpose of making from the seeds an oil that 
is good-tasted, and fit for salads and all the purposes 
for which olive-oil is used. Hence it is evident that 
the Sunflower might with as much justice have been 
made the emblem of true as of false riches. 
