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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: Smithsonian Libraries
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hat they produce a more har-monious effect, particularly when soft-ened by the murmur of the waters. To Cassell the voice of the swan islow, soft and musical, and when heardfrom multitudes congregated together hasa very pleasing effect. Shakespeare re-peatedly alludes to the music of the swanwith manifest confidence in its melody;Pallas, the ornithologist, likens theirnotes to silver bells; and Olaffson saysthat in the long Polar night it is delight-ful to hear a flock passing overhead, themixture of sounds resembling trumpetsand violins. So now, though we no longer knowthat the soul of the poet returns to float,the embodiment of rhythmic grace, be-fore our mortal eyes as in the years solong gone by, there yet remains to us thesplendid imagery of that stately form inspotless plumage against the setting ofthe darkening sea, the wonder of that sol-emn requiem, and the prophecy and themystery of the shadowy orchestra passXing onward in the depths of the midnightsky. Juliette A. Owen. 140
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FROM KUMllH-i Ml immnal-PFLANZEN. 400 BLACK PEPPER. A. W. MUMFORO. PUBLISHER. PEPPER. (Piper nigrum h.) The pepperer formed an important member of the coinniunity in England during theMiddle Ages, when a large proportion of food consumed was salted meat, and pepperwas in high request as a seasoner.—S. Dowell, Taxes in England, IV. 35. The plants yielding the black and whitepepper of the market are climbing ortrailing shrubs. The stem attains a lengthof from 15 to 25 feet. The climbing por-tions cling to the support (usually largetrees) by means of aerial roots similar tothe ivy. The leaves are entire, simple, al-ternate, without stipules. The flowersare very insignificant in appearance, ses-sile upon a long, slender, pendulousspadix. They are mostly unisexual, eithermonoecious or dioecious, that is the stam-inate (male) flowers and pistillate (female)flowers are separate, either upon differentbranches of the same plant (monoecious)or upon different plants (dioecious). Thefruit is be

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