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ylil'ta Americana. Natural Order: Tiliacea;—Linden Family. 
ASS WOOD is the common name for this forest tree in our 
Northern States. It grows to a great height, and abounds in 
a wholesome mucilaginous juice. Its tender young twigs 
are often pulled and eaten by school children for this pi op- 
erty. The inner bark is sometimes manufactured into rope. 
The wood is very soft and white, and is used for the paneling 
of carriages and in cabinet work, as it is easily wrought. 
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W EDDED love is founded on esteem, 
Which the fair merits of the mind engage, 
For those are charms which never can decay; 
But time, which gives new whiteness to the swan, 
Improves their luster. 
T HOUGH fools spurn Hymen’s gentle powers, 
We, who improve his golden hours, 
By sweet experience know 
That marriage, rightly understood, 
Gives to the tender and the good, 
A paradise below. —Cotton. 
— Fenton. 
TTAVE I a wish? ’tis all her own; 
*■ *• All hers and mine are rolled in one — 
Our hearts are so entwined, 
That like the ivy round the tree, 
Bound up in closest amity, 
’Tis death to be disjoined. —Lindley Murray. 
'T'EMPTING gold alone 
1 In this our age more marriages completes 
Than virtue, merit, or the force of love. 
— Wandesford. 
T ET still the woman take A^7"HAT thou art is mine; 
L' An elder than herself; so wears she to him, Our state cannot be sever d; we are one, 
So sways she level in her husband’s heart. One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. 
— Shakespeare. 
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— Milton. 
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The celebrated Russia matting is manufactured from a species of 
European Linden, while the East Indians rely upon the native species 
for their rice bags, fishing nets and lines. 
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