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Petunia argentca. Natural Order: Solanacece — Nightshade Family. 
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ELONGING to the same order of plants as the tobacco, the 
Petunia is a native of South America, and derives its name 
from -petun, a name for tobacco among the aborigines of 
that quarter. Of late years foreign florists have taken infinite 
3 pains to improve it by hybridizing, and have succeeded in 
producing some that are most exquisite in color, being plain, 
blotched, or striped, and nearly as double as a rose. This has 
■nly been accomplished after numerous discouragements. As the double 
ones rarely produce seeds, and should they do so would seldom yield 
double flowers in return, the mode of procedure has been to take the 
pollen of the double flower and apply it to the stigma- of the never- 
failing single flower, having previously removed the pollen of the latter, 
ants must then be grown and allowed to ripen under cover, to be sure 
that no bee or truant insect, searching for hidden sweets, shall shake off' from its 
tiny legs any of the pollen that may have adhered while wantoning over single 
blossoms. 
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Are lines drawn from one center; what I promise 
To do > P11 do - -Daniel. 
^pHE man that is not in the enemies’ pow’r, TAIVINEST creature! bright Astrea’s daughter! 
Nor fetter’d by misfortune, and breaks promises, ^ How shall I honor thee for this success? 
Degiades himself; he never can pretend Thy promises are like Adonis’s gardens, 
to honor more. That one day bloom’d, and fruitful were the next 
— Shakespeare. 
-Sir Robert Stapleton. 
JET not thy tongue too often bind thy will, 
do lender deeds unto thv foe or friend, 
For words once utter’d thou must erst fulfill, 
Lest sweetest friendship have inglorious end 
For hearts once lighten’d by a promise giv’n, 
May sink too low for rescue shouldst thou fail, 
As ships reach not the port for which they’ve striv’n 
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Except a favoring wind their sails prevail. 
— C. II. T. 
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