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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
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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r all yourtrouble. Meanwhile the neighbors, and themarsh wren generally has numbers of them, have doubtless been charming youwith their bubbling, gurgling song, al-ways half the colony singing at once, or,one bird rising above the reeds gives theorder, a9 it were, and the whole colonyjoins in the chorus. The song is> quite be-yond their control; they seem filled tooverflowing with an inexhaustible supplyof music, which trickles down the reeds,like gathered-up drops of water chargedwith music. Sometimes, like a mine of melody, itexplodes within them and lifts them fromthe dark recesses of the flags into the airabove. Nelly Hart Woodworth. WHEN SPRING COMES. Again the birds will weave their nests, And come and go on airy wing;And one will nurse her little guests And one will watch and sweetly sing. The bushes small and towering trees Their leaves of living green will don,And, swaying in the restless breeze, Will laugh because old Winters gone. —George Gee. 188 UNIVERSITY Of llUNOtS
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CUBEBS. (Piper cubeba Iv.) Aromatics, as cubebs, cinnamons and nutmegs, are usually put into crude poor -winesto give them more oily spirits.—Floyer, The-Humors. The cubeb-yielding plant is not unlikethe pepper plant and belongs to the samefamily (Piperaceae). The two resembleeach other in general habits in the formof inflorescence and1 in the fruiting. Cubebs were known to Arabian phy-sicians as early as the ninth century, whoemployed them as a diuretic in kidneytroubles. It was also known at that timethat Java was the home of the plant. Atone time it was believed that the Car-pesium of ancient writers was cubebs, butthis is now generally disbelieved. Edrisistates that cubeb found its way to Adenabout 1153. During the twelfth and thir-teenth centuries it was employed medicin-ally in Spain. Originally it was doubtlessemployed as a spice, similar to pepper.Mariano Sanudo (1306) classed it amongthe rare and costly spices. Hildegard re-ferred to the soothing properties of cubeb.In the

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