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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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forms, especially with theChina rose, which was introduced intoEngland in 1789. The musk rose wasbrought from Italy in 1592 and the sin-gle yellow rose from Syria, in 1629. Themoss rose hailed from the land of dykesand delft early in the eighteenth cen-tury, while China appropriately contrib-uted the tea rose in 1825. Charles S. Raddin. A BOWL OF ROSES. A dozen slender stems of perfect grace—A myriad clustering leaves of misty sheenThat mass and tangle and together lean.And shine and shimmer like an ocean space—And as the cool sea wave that wins the race,Crowned with the early, morn-flushed foami, is seen.So rest the blossoms gainst this sea of igreen,With blushing heads uplift, or drooping face;And each holds in its heart a touch of flameThat glows and glimmers like the eye of love,And each a sweetness that no word can name;And over all, a charm, fine and completeThat thrills the soul, as if from, heaven above,Through open gates came music low and sweet. Harriet Warner Higley. 32
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FROM COL OF V¥, E. LONGLEY, 542 COl-vm&MT lf03, B» A. W. MJMFOHD, Cm <S3. CYNTHIA SILKWORM.(Samia cynthia).About Life-size. THE CYNTHIA SILKWORM MOTH. (Samia cynthia.) To the Chinese must be credited thediscovery of silk and the originating ofthe silk industry. Even before the year2640 B. C. they had knowledge of thelarvae— That in their green- shops weave the smooth-haired silk. It was the mulberry-feeding mothwhich produces the finest silk of to-day,that was kno\vii to these early Chinese.Tliey, and later other nations with them,encouraged its cultivation, until now theinsect has become thoroughly domesti-cated and lost rhany of the characteris-tics of its wild state. The Chinese also discovered that therewere other moths, the larvae of whichspun a cocoon of silken threads in whichto pass the period of its transformationinto an adult moth. Among these mothsis the Cynthia of our illustration. It isa native of India, China and the adjacentislands, and has been domesticated

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