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|3(tonia officinalis. Natural Order: Ranunculacece — Crowfoot Family. 
HE Paeony is supposed to have derived its name from 
Paeon, a disciple of EEsculapius, who used it for the healing 
of Pluto, thereby arousing the jealous feelings of his pre¬ 
ceptor, so much so indeed that he compassed his death. 
Both the root and leaves are used in medicine as an anti- 
spasmodic and tonic. The flowers are very large and 
showy in all the species. The common variety is a native of Switzer¬ 
land; the white, of Tartary; the Siberian, as its name indicates, of 
f Siberia. The Chinese Pseony is a shrub from three to four feet 
jg high, with ample foliage, and very large, brilliant, fragrant flowers. 
L They are mostly hardy, except in extreme northern latitudes, and 
^produce various colored blossoms. 
OHAME sticks ever close to the ribs of honor, 
Great men are never found after it. 
— Middleton. 
TT T HEN knaves and fools combined o’er all prevail, 
* * When justice halts and right begins to fail, 
Even the boldest start from public sneers, 
Afraid of shame, unknown to other fears. 
— Byron. 
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'HAT holy shame, which ne’er forgets 
What clear renown it us’d to wear; 
Whose blush remains when virtue sets, 
To show her sunshine has been there. 
-Moore. 
G'ONFOUND me not with shame, nor call up all 
^ The blood that warms my trembling heart, 
To fill my cheeks with blushes. 
-Trap. 
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CAN bear scorpion stings, tread fields of fire, 
frozen gulfs of cold, eternal lie; 
Be toss’d aloft through tracts of endless void, 
But cannot live in shame. —Joanna BaiUie. 
'T'HE mind that broods o’er guilty woes 
A Is like a scorpion girt by fire; 
I-n circle narrowing as it glows, 
The flames around their captive close. 
— Byron. 
COME seek to salve their blotted name 
^ With others’ blot, till all do taste of shame. 
— Sir P. Sidney. 
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