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^Ibutilon vlliiccnucc. Natural Order: Malvacece — Mallow Family. 
RESIDENTS by natural selection of the warmer latitudes, the 
Mallows bear the colder climates with an easy adaptability to 
^ circumstances, and favor us with their flowers without stint. 
plant, as the name indicates, is a native of the East and 
Ajgkonly to house or conservatory growth, is a shrub from Brazil, growing 
%> several feet in height, with broad, palmate leaves, and handsome, bell- 
jp shaped flowers of yellow, curiously veined with a dark red. Planted in 
ness, but can accommodate itself to limited quarters in pot culture. To 
sd/ bloom well it must have the sun. The origin of the name Abutilon is 
unknown; Avicenna was a celebrated Arabian physician and philosopher 
of the middle ages. 
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♦ 
QHE attracts me daily with her gentle virtues, 
^ So soft, and beautiful, and heavenly. 
Our joys, when extended, will always increase, 
The gradual culture of kind intercourse 
Must bring it to perfection. —Joanna Baillie. And griefs, when divided, are hush’d into peace. 
— Mrs. Margaret Smith. 
'TMIOU gav’st me that the poor do give the poor, 
A Kind words and holy wishes, and true tears; 
The loved, the near of kin, could do no more, 
Who changed not with the gloom of varying years, 
But clung the closer when I stood forlorn, 
And blunted slander’s dart with their indignant scorn. 
