The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger].

  • James Grainger
Date:
1766
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Credit: The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tho’ baneful be its root. The privet too, B15 Whofe white flowers rival the firft drifts of {now On Grampia’s piny hills; (O might the mufe Tread, flufh’d with health, the Grampian hills again !) Emblem of innocence fhall grace my fong,. Boaft of the fhrubby tribe, carnation fair, 520 Nor thou repine, tho’ late the mufe record Thy bloomy honours. Tipt with burnifh’d gold, And with imperial purple crefted high, More gorgeous than the train of Juno’s bird, Thy bloomy honours oft the curious mufe = 525 Hath feen tranfported: feen the humming bird, . Whofe Ver. gts. the privet] Liguflrum. This fhrub is fufficiently known. Its leaves and Howers make a good gargle in the aphthz, and ulcered throat. Ver. 22¢. carnation fair,] This is indeed a moft beautiful flowering fhrub. It is a native of the Weft-Indies, and called, from a French Governor, named Depoinci, Poinciana. If per mitted, it will grow twenty feet high; but, in order to make it a good fence, it fhould be kept low. It is always in bloffom. Though not purgative, it is of the fenna-kind. Its leaves and flowers are ftomachic, carminative, and emmenagogue. Some ‘authors name it “ Cauda pavonis,” on acconnt of its inimitable beauty: the flowers have a phyficky {mell. How it came to be called Doodle-doo I know not; the Barbadians more properly term it “ Flower Fence.” This plant grows alfo in Guinea. _ Ver. 526. feen the humming bird,] The humming bird is called Picaflore by the Spaniards, on account of its hovering over ‘flowers, and fucking their juices, without lacerating, or even _ fo much as diicompofing their petals: Its Indian name, fays “Ulloa, is Guinde, though it is*alfo known by the appellation of Rabilargo and Lizongero, By the Caribbeans it is called ‘Collobree. It is commen in all the warm paris of America. _ There are yarious fpecies of them, ell exceeding fmall, Pr ; any ad} 4 ie | ee
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