Ranunculus bulbosus. Natural Order: Ranunculacece—Crowfoot Family. 
ULBOUS RANUNCULUS, or Crowfoot, is generally found 
in pasture lands. The root is fleshy, and the flowers are of 
a golden yellow. Some varieties are cultivated in our gar¬ 
dens, among which are the Asiatic and Persian, sporting 
Jjjfe, through nearly every conceivable hue. “A good Ranunculus 
*|rtra should have a stem eight or twelve inches high, flower not 
g J less than two inches in diameter, either of one color or variously 
diversified.” Its name is the diminutive form of the Latin appellation 
rana , signifying a frog, from the aquatic habits of some of the species. 
It blooms in May and June. 
Tflijraliinbt* 
'T'HE wretch whom gratitude once fails to bind, 
To truth or honor let him lay no claim. 
—Frowde. 
ALL should unite to punish the ungrateful; 
-f"*- Ingratitude is treason to mankind. 
— Thompson. 
T) Y me thy greatness grew; thy years grew with it, 
But thy ingratitude outgrew them both. 
— Dry den. 
H 
I F there be a crime 
Of deeper dye than all the guilty train 
Of human vices, ’tis ingratitude. — Brooke. 
E that’s ungrateful has no guilt but one; 
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. 
— Young. 
T AM rapt, and cannot 
Cover the monstrous bulk of this ingratitude 
With any size of words. —Shakespeare. 
H 
E that doth public good for multitudes. 
Finds few are truly grateful. 
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LOW, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 
As man’s ingratitude; 
— Marston. 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 
Although thy breath be rude. 
— Shakespeare. 
INGRATITUDE is a monster 
* To be strangled in the birth; not to be cherish’d. 
— Massinger. 
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