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Cupinus polnpljnllus. Natural Order: Lcguminosce—Pulse Family. 
MONG our handsomest native plants, the Lupines find a 
recognized place, more especially the above, which is a fine 
variety from Oregon. Its height is from three to four feet, 
the foliage soft and silky, and the flowers yellow, purple, or 
-2 white. There are numerous other varieties from different 
parts of the United States, both annual and perennial. The 
pinus mutabilis (changeable) is from South America, and is said to 
changeable in the color of its blossoms. The ancients used a spe- 
s of Lupine for food, thinking it strengthened the intellect; and on 
stage the seeds were used by the players instead of real money. 
; Latin name signifies wolfish, from lupus, a wolf, as it absorbs the 
P fertility of the soil, to the detriment of other things; and polyphyllus, 
from the Greek, denotes many-leaved. 
T 
HE turnpike road to people’s hearts, I find, 
Lies through their mouths, or I mistake mankind. 
T ’M quite ashamed — ’tis mighty rude 
To eat so much — but all’s so good 
I have a thousand thanks to give — 
My lord alone knows how to live. 
— Pope. 
— Dr. Walcot. 
,r T'IS holyday; provide me better cheer; 
’Tis holyday; and shall be round the year; 
Shall I my household gods and genius cheat, 
To make him rich who grudges me my meat? 
— Dryden. 
s 
OME men are born to feast, and not to fight; 
Whose sluggish mind, e’en in fair honor’s field, 
Still on their dinner turn. 
— 'Joanna Bat/lie. 
TTEYOND the sense 
Of light refection, at the genial board 
Indulge not often; nor protract the feast 
To dull satiety; till soft and slow 
A drowsy death creeps on th’ expansive soul, 
Oppress’d and smother’d the celestial fire. 
— Armstrong. 
ATOT all on books their criticism waste, 
f ’ The genius of a dish some justly taste, 
And eat their way to fame. —Young. 
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