The Day, disrobing for her rest,
Delayed to lift the twilight bars;
And o’er them, from the golden West,
Wandered this troop of truant stars.
—Cora A. Matson Dolson, in Lippincott’s Magazine.
SUGAR CANE. (Saccharum officinarum.) FROM KŒHLER’S MEDICINAL-PFLANZEN.
Description of plate: A, plant much reduced; B, stem portion with leaf; C, inflorescence; 1-6, parts of flower.
