^lustoiodjta sipljO. Natural Order: Anstolochiacecz — Birth'wort Family. 
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A/'OUR wisdom is most liberal, and knows 
How fond a thing it is for discreet men 
To purchase with the loss of their estate 
The name of one poor virtue, liberality, 
And that, too, only from the mouth of beggars! 
One of your judgment would not, I am sure, 
Buy all the virtues at so dear a rate. —Randolph. 
T HAVE spent all the wealth 
My ancestors did purchase; made others brave 
Tj)UT th’ earth herself, of her owne motion, 
Out of her fruit full bosome made to growe 
Most daintie trees, that, shooting up anon, In shape and riches, and myself a knave: 
Did seeme to bow their blooming heads full lowe For tho’ my wealth rais’d some to paint their door, 
I or homage unto her, and like a throne did show. ’Tis shut against me, saving I am poor. 
—Spenser. —Wilkins. 
T 
HE feast is such as earth, the general mother, 
Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles 
In the embrace of antumn. 
— Shelly. 
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ERE is a climbing shrub found in our Middle and Southern 
States, generally in upland woods, frequently attaining the 
height of thirty feet or more. The leaves are large and 
. heart-shaped, arranged alternately on each side of the stem. 
©5/6*1^. The flowers are particularly striking, blooming singly, each 
eyo^syc) tube being long and turned up in the form of a tobacco-pipe, and of 
a brownish color. Hence the shrub is frequently called Dutchman’s 
^P e ' ^ Aristolochia Bonplandi, a fine plant for greenhouse cul- 
ture, is a native of Patagonia, and, like some two or three others, 
thrives best in the warm, moist air of the hothouse. The flowers 
) of all have the same peculiar structure; the colors are purple or a 
greenish brown, some of them being beautifully spotted. 
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