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Datum stramonium. Natural Order: Solciuacece—Nightshade Family 
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FUR A is a formation from the Arabic name, and the fruit 
of the plant is called by botanists Thorn Apple, which 
should not be confounded with the berries or apples of 
the thorn tree. The varied properties of this order of plants 
are highly important, for, although the most of them are dan¬ 
gerously poisonous, yet they form both food and medicine for man. 
The fruits of the egg-plant, tomato, and the tuber of the potato, are 
excellent and wholesome food, while the hyoscyamus, atropa and Da¬ 
tura are invaluable in medicine. Every part of the Thorn Apple, or 
Datura, is a deadly poison. It is used in asthmatic affections, but 
should be administered only by a careful physician. The flowers, 
which are trumpet-shaped, are white, slightly tinged with purple. The 
common name is Jimson or Jamestown Weed, and as such it is found 
wild on the commons. There are, however, several handsome varieties for gar¬ 
den culture, from foreign countries, that are worthy of attention. 
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J SHOULD not like the gloss were past, 
A Yet want it not entirely new, 
But bright and strong enough to last 
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About — suppose a Aveek or two. —Moore. 
TYEAUTY is but a vain and doubtful good, 
^ A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly, 
A flower that dies when first it ’gins to bud, 
A brittle glass that’s broken presently; 
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. 
— Shakespeare. 
T O! when the buds expand the leaves are green 
^ Then the first opening of the flower is seen; 
Then come the honeyed breath and rosy smile, 
That with their sweets the willing sense beguile; 
But as we look, and love, and taste, and praise, 
And the fruit grows, the charming flower decavs. 
— Crabbe. 
OHE spoke, and lo! her loveline 
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And every sentence made it less, 
So false they rung. 
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Jean Ingelow. 
