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Borago ofiuriuCtltS. Natural Order: Boraginacece — Borage Family. 
NGLAND and the rest of Europe as well as America now 
own this plant in a naturalized state, though it is generally 
believed to have been originally indigenous to the region of 
Aleppo, in Turkey. It is cultivated in the kitchen garden 
for its young leaves, which are considered excellent for salads, 
pickles and pot-herbs. It is an annual, about two feet high, 
with oval leaves growing alternately on each side of the stem, the 
dyk) whole plant being rough and covered with hairs. It is also grown as 
an ornamental plant in the flower garden. The flowers are a pale 
blue, appearing in spring on the ends of the branches. The plants of 
this whole family abound in mucilaginous juices containing much niter, 
and are said never to possess any poisonous or harmful quality. 
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HE reed in storms may bow and quiver, 
Then rise again; the tree must shiver. 
— Byron. 
I do not love 
Much ceremony; suits in love should not, 
Like suits in law, be rock’d from term to term. 
— Shirley. 
OUDDENLY all the sky is hid 
^ As with the shutting of a lid. 
— yames Russell Lowell. 
Although 
The air of Paradise did fan the house. 
And angels offic’d all, I will begone. 
— Shakespeare. 
'T'HIS is some fellow, 
A Who, having been prais’d for bluntness, doth affect 
A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb; 
Quite from his nature! he can’t flatter, he, 
An honest mind and plain — he must speak truth: 
And they will take it so; if not, he’s plain. 
These kind of knaves I knoAV, which in this plainness 
Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, 
Than twenty silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duty nicely. — Shakespeare. 
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