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THOUGH gay as mirth, as curious thoughts sedate; 
As elegance polite, as power elate; 
Profound as reason, and as justice clear; 
Soft as compassion, yet as truth severe. 
Savage. 
T CANNOT soar into the heights you show, 
Nor dive among the deeps that you reveal; 
But it is much that high things are to know, 
That deep things are to feel. 
QHE was the pride 
Of her familiar sphere — the daily joy 
Of all who on her gracefulness might gaze, 
And in the light and music of her way 
Have a companion’s portion. —Willis. 
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’Tis yours, not mine, to pluck out of your breast 
Some human truth, whose workings recondite 
Were unattired in words, and manifest, 
And hold it forth to light. 
— Jean fuge/ovj. 
S T . AN D free and fast, 
And judge him by no more than what you know 
Ingeniously, and by the right-laid line 
Of truth, he truly will all styles deserye, 
Of wise, good, just; a man both soul and nerve. 
— Shirley. 
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Btttatctb ttUlllS. Natural Order; Couvolvulcicecs — Convolvulus Fcitnily. 
\TATAS, or Sweet Potato, is native, to both the East and 
West Indies, and only within a recent period has the culti¬ 
vation ot the tubers been attempted save in tropical countries 
or the more remote, warm parts of our Southern States. 
Latterly, however, they have been introduced into the Mid¬ 
dle States, where they have been successfully grown by first 
starting the plants in hotbeds, and then transplanting them to 
in \\ hich they are to grow. I he potatoes are protected in dry 
ing winter. The tubers are pointed, sweet and nourishing. 
The stem is piostiate and creeping, producing purple or white flowers, 
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n campanulate in shape, and sometimes quite showy, bor mere pleasure 
^ K ^ can be grown in the house by placing a tuber in a vessel partly filled 
with water, when it will reward the cultivator with several quite pretty 
and lengthy vines. If the first should decay before sprouting, it could easily be 
replaced until success crowned perseverance. 
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