Angelica atropuqntrm. Natural Order: Umbellifera —Parsley Family. 
HIS plant is the largest of the species, the stalks attaining 
the height of from four to six feet. It grows usually in a 
wild or half-naturalized state, in fields and meadows, possesses 
strong aromatic properties, and is sometimes used in medicine. 
The garden Angelica is supposed to be a native of Labrador, 
and is the plant cultivated and used the same as celery, the 
blanched stalks adding a good relish when other salads are scarce. 
The poets ol Lapland fancied they derived inspiration from wearing 
it as a crown; hence its application. 
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'THE poets may of inspiration boast, 
Their rage, ill governed, in the clouds is lost; 
He that proportioned wonders can disclose, 
At once his fancy and his judgment shows; 
Chaste moral writing we may learn from hence, 
Neglect of which no wit can recompense. 
The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, 
That sacred stream should never water weeds, 
Nor make the cup of thorns and thistles grow, 
Which envy or perverted nature sow. -Roscommon. 
T7 VES planet calm, with something in their vision 
That seemed not of earth’s mortal mixture born; 
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jpOETS are limners of another kind, 
To copy our ideas in the mind; 
Words are the paint by which their tho’ts are shown, Strange mythic faiths and fantasies Elvsian, 
And nature is the object to be drawn. And far, sweet dreams of “fairy lands forlorn.” 
Granville. —Sarah Helen Whitman. 
^pHE poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. —Shakespeare. 
