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As abiogenetic engineering continues to advance, arena God has never seemed so easy. And yet bodies accept never seemed so powerless.
Consider the dejected rose. For centuries, dejected roses were advised genetically impossible. Countless scientists accept approved to blend roses with added bluish or azure flowers, consistent in, at best, a purplish mauve. And so the dejected rose has been a arcane attribute for the unattainable — the abstraction of immortality, or an barren love. “Because added bodies are not such admirable people,” Jim tells Laura in Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie.” “. . . They’re accepted as weeds, but you, well, you’re Dejected Roses!”
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Science, however, has no attention for such poetry. Advisers from Tianjin University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences afresh appear they had done the impossible: By engineering a bacilli that can abuse the DNA of plants, they were able to catechumen proteins begin in the flower’s blade into the dejected colorant indigoidine. They injected that bacilli into a white rose, and presto — an acutely bluish blemish appeared on one of the flower’s petals. The activity has a continued way to go afore the annual is perfected, but advisers absurdly adumbrate that blue-hued roses will hit the bazaar in the abutting few years.
Such an advance is, of course, account celebrating. Ever aback we bald aback the blind to acknowledge the abstruse abiogenetic instructions basal our existence, we accept developed a ability to actualize that defies our apperception of nature. We’re agriculture disease-resistant livestock. We’re growing unnaturally nutrient-rich crops. Someday, we ability alike eradicate affiliated diseases from the animal race.
But this newfound, godly ability is additionally greatly disappointing: All the abstruse advancements in the apple accept been askew by the clip of our accretion ability to destroy.
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In the Abrahamic tradition, God gave humankind ascendancy over activity on Earth, bestowing aloft it the albatross to act as a abettor of his creation. But admitting our accurate advancements — and in abounding ways, because of it — the abiogenetic architecture of activity on Earth has suffered abundantly beneath our reign.
Today, bags of breed of wildlife sit on the border of afterlife because of our actions. We accept destroyed their habitats, fundamentally adapted the altitude by pumping carbon into the atmosphere and bolter bottomward once-massive populations to groups so baby that we can calculation the actual animals on our fingers. So abundant is this animal blackmail that scientists altercate that we’re currently in one of the affliction accumulation afterlife contest in the history of the apple — up there with a adverse agitable eruptions and collisions with asteroids.
We watch this collapse of Earth’s biodiversity in apathetic motion, captured best presciently by the aftermost actual arctic white rhinos — of which there are two females larboard — and the South China tiger, which hasn’t been apparent in the agrarian in decades. Conservationists are scrambling to appear up with avant-garde solutions to save added breed from a agnate fate — attention their DNA to conceivably be adored one day, or bond added accompanying breed into their gene basin to avoid off the furnishings of inbreeding.
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But let’s be honest with ourselves: This is a fool’s errand. As added and added breed advance against extinction, the assignment of attention will access exponentially. Barring some array of miracle, our abiogenetic Noah’s Ark will flood; our administration albatross as animal beings will shatter. If you’re not convinced, booty a attending at the contempo address in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assuming that the “hyperalarming” accident of insects — one of the best important genitalia of any ecosystem — is added boundless beyond the apple than ahead thought.
This is hubris. We go about our lives addition our bookish accommodation to angle the possibilities of attributes to accommodated our desires. And we avoid the human-made crises we administer aloft our planet because they are annoying to our lifestyles.
Sooner or later, association will admit all the accident we are inflicting aloft our all-embracing paradise. Until then, while we abide to boggle with our new admiral of creation, the angle of the sea, the birds of the air and all the creatures that clamber on the Earth will disappear.
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We went and visited our friend Wickedollz in Canada who took us to our first-ever hockey game with the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was exciting and we yelled a lot, but they lost to the St. Louis Blues. This is us after the game, I got one of those Upset Fan hats and a big beer to help me cope. Riffy even got a fake tattoo!
It was Thanksgiving Day in Canada, so we were just thankful that we all got to be together. :)
Found this Tortoise while on a trek last Sunday.
The rustle of the leaves alerted us to this old creature.
It was slowly moving underneath all theleaf litter. It froze as soon as we approached it.
We 3 of us took a few shots and left the place. :-)
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Identifier: honitonlacebook00devo
Title: The Honiton lace book
Authors: Devonia, pseud
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: London : Bazaar
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Fig. 19. Shamrock Pattern. CHAPTER XIV. Wild Eose Pattern—Inner Pearl—Eaised Fibres. Thi;, pattern, which forms a very pretty edge to a tucker, or border for ahandkerchief, affords a good opportunity of practising raised work, andalso teaches another method of doing leaves in halves. Commence at the flower, work the inner circle with five pair, then do thepetals, either open as in the design, or close, sewing each row to theedge of the circle, and making the petals alternately in whole and lacestitch, this latter work has the best effect; eight pair and a gimp will berequired, lastly fill in the plaitings. There is an error in the engravingas to the pearls, they are better put at the flower side of the pattern, andthe straight edge can be sewn to a braid or footing net. Work down thestem with six pair and round the knob. This is for the first pattern ; thesucceeding ones will commence at the knob. After passing it work stem
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Fig. 20. Wild Rose Edging. till you reach the leaves. The small leaf touching the flower must bemade first; carry stem, up the side, and come back in whole stitch witheight pair, connecting to the flower at the point of contact. Next workthe large leaf in the same way with ten pair. Cut off four pair at theend, and work the stem to the end leaf; cut off a pair, and continue thestem down the middle of the leaf ; hang on two pair, turn the pillow, andwork the half-leaf in whole stitch and raised work. At the bottom of theleaf cross the stem, cut off a pair, turn the pillow again, and do the otherhalf in lace stitch. Cut off another pair at the tip, and work the fibrestem down the other leaf, turn at the bottom, and work it in the samemanner, and with the same number of bobbins. When you have finishedit continue the stem with six pair to the next flower, which work in thesame manner as the first, cutting off the bobbins at the end. Then fasten 38 HONITON LACE-MAKING. on six pair at the s
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Identifier: wildflowersevery00stac
Authors: Stack, Frederic William, 1871-
Subjects: Flowers Wild flowers
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ect, like, forinstance, the florets of a freshly opened Clover. WILD, OR HOG PEANUT Amphicarpa monoica. Pea Family. This ill-named, slender, sparingly branched climb-ing vine grows from one to eight feet in length. It iscommon everywhere in moist thickets and rich, dampwoodlands during August and September. Threepointed, egg-shaped leaflets compose the compound leaf.They are smooth, thin, toothless and short stemmed.The dehcate, light green alternating leaves are slen-der stemmed. The butterfly-shaped flowers are gath-ered in small, drooping, short-stemmed clusters, at theleaf angles. They are purplish or lilac, and precede thenumerous small, hairy pods containing several mot-tled brown seeds. Rudimentary flowers are also borneon very slender, creeping stems at the base or root ofthe vine and ripen their fruit beneath the surface ofthe ground in the form of fleshy, pear-shaped pods.Pigs are notorious rooters after these subterraneanPeanuts, and consequently country people began to 336
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OX-EYE DAISY. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum ^M ■■■ ^^^1 ^^M |^^H| ?^^^^H ^^^H I|ei|I^H^^ ^j^^^^H^^H ^M j^i^ l^^S m i^>^^9l W^Ki*%. • Til ■H i LARGE PURPLE-FRINGED ORCHIS. Habenaria fimbriata WILD FLOWERS blue and purple know this graceful, twining perennial as the HogPeanut. It is found from New Brunswick to Florida,west to Lake Superior, Nebraska, and Louisiana. THE VIOLETS Vtolaceae. Violet Family. Violets are probably the best and most popularlyknown of all the wild flowers. The Latin nameViola, is derived from the classic Greek, Ion. Jupiter,we are told, fell in love with lo, the daughter of theriver god, Inachus, and in order to conceal her fromthe jealousy of Juno, his wife, Jupiter changed lo intoa heifer, and then created the fragrant Violet that shemight feed upon the delicate petals during her trans-formation. So runs this ancient Greek myth regard-ing the origin of the Violet. Be this as it may, Jupitermust have considered the creation of the Violet withexceeding
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Identifier: eyesnoeyes00buck
Title: Eyes and no eyes
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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ime, and, if one below is ready sooner than theothers, she eats through the cover of her cell andtries to push past her neighbour. But if the oneabove is so big that the bee cannot get by withouthurting her, she waits patiently till all are ready. Another little bee which you may often find isthe Sleeper bee (2, p. 51), so-called because sheoften sleeps in the blossoms of-flowers, where youmay find her. She is thin and black with a squarehead and strong jaws, and she has a little yellowdown on her hind body or abdomen. She tooburrows in posts, but very often she makes hernest inside a large stra^v. In olden days, whencottages were thatched, hundreds of these beeswould build in the larger straws of the thatch, andmight be heard buzzing abovit the roof. Then there is another bee which you cannothelp finding. This is the Leaf-cutting bee (3,p. 51). Have you not seen the leaves of rose-treeswith pieces like a half-moon cut out of their edge ?If you watch you may see a bee doing this work.
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SOLITARY BEES. j\. Osmia Uees. 3. LeafcutUiig Bee. I. Sleeper Bee. 4. Carder Bee. SOLITARY BEES. 53 She is about the same size as a hive-bee, butrather stouter, and her bod}^ is black with soft bro^vnhairs over it. She clings to the leaf and turnsround in a circle bitingas she goes. Just beforeshe has finished sheopens her ^vings and sobalances herself in theair. Then, when thelast bite is made, sheflies off with the pieceof leaf carried be-tween her feet and herjaws. She goes to a hole inthe ground, which isstraight down for a littleway, and then turns, andruns along under the sur-face. Here she packs theleaf in and goes back formore. With severalpieces she makes a littlethimble, in which she laysan egg, with food roundit, and closes it withthree or four i-oundpieces. Then she begins another thimble, pushingit in, so that it fits a little way into the last one.In this way she builds about seven cells, each withits egg and bee-bread, for the grubs to feed on tillthey turn into bees. T
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Identifier: c2secondreadingb00toro
Title: Second Reading Book
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are heart-shaped leaves.Some morning-glory plants have suchleaves. Many plants have scallopedleaves. Nearly all oaks have leavesof this kind. The live-oak and thewillow-oak, which are not found inCanada, have smooth oval leaves. 4. Here is a leaf of a very curious shape,and a pretty leaf it is. Itgrows on very large and talltrees, called ttdip trees, sonamed because they havelarge flowers shaped some-what like a tulip. Thesesplendid trees grow in theforests in some parts of Can-ada and the United States. 5. These are only a fewof the countless varieties of leaves to be met within the forests of the world. Their shapes are somany and so different that a large book would nothold pictures of them all. 6. Leaves are for the most part thin and broad.Being thin they are light, and a tree w ith its many 4, 5, 6. Write the paragraphs, using for curious, shape, tall,splendid, forests, countless, different, for the most part,and branches, other words or phrases which will not changethe meaning.
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SECOND READING BOOK. 175 little branches can hold thousands of them andnot break down. Being broad, they are enabledto come into contact with a good deal of air;and that is just what the plant wants them to do—to take in from the air all the food they can. 7. And how do the leaves do this? By a kindof breatJiincr. A leaf has a skin on each of itssides, and the skin on the lower side has thousandsof fine holes, through which the air gets inside theleaf. There a part of the air joins the sap or juicethat has come up from the roots, and the twotogether make the food upon which the wdioleplant feeds. 8. When the w^nd blow^s, the leaves bend andflutter about, but they hold fast to the branches bytheir tough little stalks; and if a few of the weakerones do blow off, it does not matter much, for theplant has plenty more left. The firm, round trunkhardly moves, and the strong round branches bendover, but do not break; while the roots in theground below hold everything fast. 9. There are pla
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Title: Little Tom
Authors: Tillie, V
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d caught it up and, whirling itwith many others, carried them through the air until they fell into a deep furrow. Here they were sheltered, at least, from the wind and, crawling out from theleaf, they looked around them, but everywhere they could only see black earth slip-pery and soft like high hills with nowhere any sign of human traces. They did notknow where they were, or whither the wind had carried them. All about them was only the dark night, while the cold of the evening piercedthem to the bone. Chrysomela pressed close to Little Tom, but she was so weary,she sould hardly stand on her feet. Tom feared to leave her, lest he might lose her,so, supporting her as best he could, stumbled on with her along the furrow untilthey came Lo a broad hole. He wanted at once to step in with Chrysomela, notcaring who was there, and to ask for shelter, when, suddenly, out of the darkness,came a gigantic animal in a fur coat, with bristling whiskers and puffed out cheeks,It was the Hamster. 128
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He was about to slide into the hole, when he smelled something strange. Hesniffed about him and peered into the darkness with his close-set eyes. When he sawthe poor little travelers and how they were pressing together close to the hole,trembling with the cold, he said kindly, Hullo there. Where are you going so late,you little travelers? Tom advanced and, bowing politely before the Hamster, asked him for shelterfor a weak, ill traveler. When the Hamster saw that there was a lady with Tom, heacted very courteously, and immediately invited them to come in. He ran ahead andreturned at once with a torch of rotten wood, with which he lighted them along thecorridor, until they came to his diningroom. Trfere it was warm and cosy. The torch shone brightly and, when Chrysomelahad removed her clcak and sat on the Hamsters bed, he wondered at her beauty.Then he ran to the pantry, shook out the grains which he had hidden in his baggycheeks and, choosing frcm his store the best morsels, placed th
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Identifier: roseshowtogrowth00barr
Title: Roses, and how to grow them; a manual for growing roses in the garden and under glass ..
Authors: Barron, Leonard, 1868-1938
Subjects: Roses
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & company
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/ INSECTS, DISEASES AND SPRAYING 49 Aphis, or green fly, is the most commonpest that the the rose grower has to contendwith. Vigilance is the best remedy. Thefly should be attacked just as soon as itappears, as the increase is on a scale of mar-vellous rapidity. The finger and thumb areexcellent for the early attack. At that timea plant may be cleansed in a few minutes,but it should be at once sprinkled withtobacco water in which a small portion ofwhale-oil soap has been dissolved. Leaf hopper. Beginning early in Juneand continuing throughout the season, theleaf hoppers appear. These pests are a con-stant menace. When the upper surfaces ofthe green leaves show minute yellow blotches,a glance on the under sides will reveal theculprits, and when the bush is jarred, theyjump or fly off in large numbers. They areminute, active, light-yellow leaf hoppers, orthe misnamed thrips of the rose grower.Most of their life is spent on the under sidesof the rose leaves. They suck their foodfrom the
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Identifier: storiesforhouseh00ande
Title: Stories for the household
Authors: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894 Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : G. Routledge and Sons
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e girls name was Inge : she was a poor child, but proud and pre-sumptuous ; there was a bad foundation in her, as the saying is. Whenshe was quite a little child, it was her delight to catch flies, and tear offtheir wings, so as to convert them into creeping things. Grown older,she would take cockchafers and beetles, and spit them on pins. Thenshe pushed a green leaf or a little scrap of paper towards their feet, andthe poor creatures seized it, and held it fast, and turned it over and over,struggling to get free from the pin. The cockchafer is reading, Inge would say. See how he turns theleaf round and round ! With years she grew worse rather than better ; but she was pretty,and that was her misfortune ; otherwise she would have been moresharply reproved than she was. Tour headstrong will requires something strong to break it! herown mother often said. As a little child, you used to trample on myapron ; but I fear you will one day trample on my heart. And that is what she really did.
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INGE TUEJTS BACK AT THE SIGHT OF 1IEE POOR MOTHER. She was sent into the country, into service in the house of richpeople, who kept her as their own child, and dressed her in correspond-ing style. She looked well, and her presumption increased. When she had been there about a year, her mistress said to her, You ought once to visit your parents, Inge. And Inge set out to visit her parents, but it was only to show herselfin her native place, and that the people there might see how grand shehad become ; but when she came to the entrance of the village, and theyoung husbandmen and maids stood there chatting, and her own motherappeared among them, sitting on a stone to rest, and with a faggot ofsticks before her that she had picked up in the wood, then Inge turnedback, for she felt ashamed that she, who was so finely dressed, shouldhave for a mother a ragged woman, who picked up wood in the forest. 230 Stories for the Household. She did not turn back out of pity for her mothers poverty, sh
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Identifier: eyesnoeyes00buck
Title: Eyes and no eyes
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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ves in the early sj)ring. Thoughit is not tall, it has very thick stems, and its bark isrough and corky. You must take the young branches if you wantto make pop-guns, for in the old ones the pithis crushed up into quite a tiny space by the ringsof wood outside. The leaves of the elder growopposite to each other on the stem, and each leafis cut into seven or nine leaflets, with one at theend. The small w^hite flowers grow in very largeflat clusters, and leave the sweet elder-berriesbehind them in the autunni. If you have not an elder tree in the garden, youwill very likely have a Snowball tree (see plate).This is a garden kind of Guelder rose. Its blossomsare not in a flat bunch as they are on the wild tree.They grow in a ball and they have no stamens orseedbox in them, so they make no seeds. But theleaves turn purple in the autumn and are very lovely. By this time the big purple Clematis will beout over the porch. It will last in bloom tillOctober, and behind it on tl^e wall grows the
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RED FLOWER, JAPAN PEAR, PYRUS JAPONIC/^WHITE FLOWER, SNOWBALL TREE, VIBURNUM OPULUS.(See pages 57 and 60.) THE ASH AND THE ELM. 63 Myrtle, which will be covered with white flowersin August. We all know the myrtle so well thatit is difficult to believe that it is not a Britishshrub. It came from the south of France, andnow grows in all warm parts of England, keepingour walls green all the year round. Its ovalleaves give a delightful scent from the little pocketsof oil, which you may see if you look through theleaf at the light. Bring flowers and leaves of any of the shrubs mentioned.LESSON XI. THE ASH AND THE ELM. Next to the oak, the two hardwood trees which aremost useful are the ash and the elm. Both thesetrees grow in the hedgerows as well as in the openfields, and they both blossom quite early in theyear, before they put forth their leaves. You may know Ash stems anywhere, even inwinter, by two things. First by the tips of itsbranches, which are flat, as if they had been pressedun
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Identifier: manualoffruitin00slin
Title: Manual of fruit insects
Authors: Slingerland, M. V. (Mark Vernon), 1864-1909 Crosby, Cyrus Richard, 1879-1937
Subjects: Fruit Beneficial insects Insect pests
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
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fruit and the foliage of fruit trees, and as it is pro- trol it. Possibly ,, , Fig. 51. — Cigar-case-bearer moth (X 7). the strong sprays used against the San Jose scale in winter might reach thehibernating caterpillars in their tiny curved cases on thetwigs. Early in the spring, or soon after the buds open andthe caterpillars begin work, a thorough application of keroseneemulsion, diluted with 9 parts of water, has proved effectivein Canada. In the commercial orchards of western New Yorkcase-bearers are usually controlled by the use of arsenate of lead,as recommended for the bud-moth, page 42. References Cornell Agjr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 93. 1895. Fletcher, Rept. Ent. Ottawa, for 1894, pp. 201-206. 1895. U. S. Bur. Ent. Bull. 80, Pt. II. 1909. The Pistol Case-bearer Coleophora malivorella Riley This interesting insect spends about seven months of itslife (from about September 1 to April 1) in hibernation as aminute, half-grown caterpillar in a small, pistol-shaped case 50 FRUIT IXSECTS
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about I of an inch long attached to the twigs of its food-plants,which are the apple especially, but also include the quince, plum and cherry. Early inApril the little cases moveand the caterpillars bore intoand devour the swelling buds,expanding leaves, and espe-cially the flowers. For fourdays about May 1, the casesmay be found again fastenedto the twigs while the cater-pillars are molting inside.Unlike the cigar-case-bearer,this insect does not make acomplete new case as it grows,but simply makes silken ad-ditions to the ends and sidesof the old case. Most of theirfeeding is done openly and notas miners, irregular holes being eaten in the leaves, often skeleton-izing them. The caterpillars never leave their cases, butproject themselves out far enough to get a foothold, then beginto eat, holding thecase at a consider-able angle from theleaf. They are mostdestructive on theflowers, where theyeat the petals andstems, thus destroy-ing the prospectivecrop. Sometimes they also bore into
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Identifier: comprehensivedic00smit
Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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tic substance mentionedin Cant. i. 12, iv. 13, 14. The ointment with whichour Lord was anointed as He sat at meat in Simonshouse at Bethany consisted of this precious sub-stance (in margin of Mk. xiv. 3, pure nard, orliquid nard), the costliness of which may be in-ferred from the indignant surprise manifested bysome of the witnesses of the transaction (Mk. xiv.3-5 ; Jn. xii. 3, 5). Dr. Royle having ascertainedthat the jalamansee, one of the Hindoo synonyms forthe sunbul (Ar. =: Gr. nardos, Sir William Jones),was annually brought from the mountains overhang-ing the Ganges and Jumna Rivers down to the plains, 1 The name Balm of Gilead is commonly applied in theUnited States to a species of poplar, Populus candicans ofAiton (Woods Botany). 1060 SPI sri purchased some of these fresh roots and plantedthem in the botanic gardens at Saharunpore, in N.India. This plant, the Nardostachys Jatamansl ofDe Candolle, is evidently the nardos described byDioscorides under the name of the Ganges nard.
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Spikenard (.VartfujfacAyj Jatamanri). It is allied to valerian, and is highly esteemedthroughout the East as a perfume and stimulantmedicine. The permanent, hair-like fibres of theleaf and footstalk give it some resemblance to thetail of an ermine, to which the Arabs have likenedit The name spikenard has also been given toother aromatic plants, in England to the AndropogonXardus of India, which is allied to lemon grass(Rekd 4), and in the United States to the Araliaracemosa, an herb with a thick root allied to gin-seng. Alabaster; Ointment; Perfumes. Spin Ding is mentioned in the Bible in Ex. xxxv.25, 26, and in Mat. vi. 28 and Lk. xii. 27. Prov.xxxi. 19 implies (according to the A. V., Stuart,Fiirst, kc.) the use of the same instruments whichhave been in vogue for hand-spinning down to thepresent day, viz. the distaff (round which the flaxor wool for spinning was wound) and spindle (onwhich the yarn or thread was wound in spinning).The distaff, however, appeare to have been dispensed
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