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The blossom is very handsome, having five large white petals, 
tipped with rose. The root was used by the ancients as a 
remedy for madness. 
Coffee. Coffea ardbica. 
The coffee berries, which w r e roast to make a beverage, grow 
on an evergreen, fifteen or twenty feet high, which is a native 
of Arabia and Ethiopia. The flowers are white and sweet- 
scented. The use of coffee as a drink is said to have begun 
in Constantinople in 1554. It was used in Marseilles in 1644. 
The first coffee-house in Paris was established by an Armenian 
named Pascal, in 1672 ; but he met with so little encouragement 
that he removed to London, where it had been previously 
'introduced in 1652. According to a recent traveller, Mr. 
Palgrave, we can never know the real excellence of coffee — 
the nectar in its perfection — till we go to Arabia. 
Cuckoo liiul. 
Simply the old name for the buttercup. 
1>entzia. 
Early in spring every greenhouse displays this pretty plant 
covered with a profusion of white blossoms. It is a native of 
China and Japan, and was called by Thunberg after John 
Deutz, a senator of Amsterdam, who furnished him with means 
for exploring those countries. 
