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(Dt'rtlis tloriluiULia. Natural Order: Oxalidacece — Oxalis Family. 
LMOST everyone is familiar with our native Oxalises, under 
p. the name of Wood Sorrel, that children are fond of plucking 
te? for its pleasant acid juice, which, when extracted and concen- 
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trated, is highly poisonous. The name denotes in Greek sour 
salt, which is sufficiently appropriate. The foreign species 
fSTp come from Chili, Cape of Good Hope, Europe, and Africa. 
and are cultivated for their bloom. The root is bulbous, and should 
be potted in the fall for winter bloom. Those that have merely fleshy 
roots bloom in summer, and should always remain in the soil. The 
bulbous variety should be kept in dry sand during the summer. The 
oxalic acid of commerce is prepared from saccharine and farinaceous 
substances through the action of nitric acid, and is used for removing 
spots of iron rust and ink stains from linen or other articles. 
PiirrnfnI JLlhtixtn. 
"OUT does not nature for the child prepare 
The parent’s love, the tender nurse’s care, 
Who, for their own forgetful, seek his good? 
mother’s love is glorifying, 
On the cheek like sunset lying; 
In the eyes a moistened light, 
Softer than the moon at night! 
—Thomas Burbidge. 
— Blackmore. 
C'OR if there be a human tear 
From passion’s dross refined and clear, 
’Tis that which pious parents shed 
Upon a duteous daughter’s head. 
— Scott. 
QOMEHOW while lingering to watch you here, 
Thy tyrannous mother-love makes me forget 
All else but that you are divinely dear! 
—Edgar Fazvcett. 
QWEET is the image of the brooding dove! 
^ Holy as heaven a mother’s tender love! 
The love of many prayers, and many tears, 
Which changes not with dim declining years, 
The only love which, on this teeming earth, 
Asks no return for passion’s wayward birth. 
■— Mrs. Norton. 
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