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Sub-Class 5.—Leaves, Leaf Stalks and Flowers.
1. Cooked.—Cabbage, Cauliflower, Spinach, Mustard, Dandelion, Cowslip, Parsley, Beet-tops, Turnip-tops, Sorrel, etc.
2. Raw (Salads.)—Lettuce, Garden Cress, Water Cress, Celery or Smallage, Endive, Chicory, Succory, Cabbage, Cauliflower, etc.
Sub-Class 6.—Receptacles, Bracts.
Brussels Sprouts, etc.
Sub-Class 7.—Stems.
Rhubarb, (Asparagus), Milk Weed.
Sub-Class 8.—Sap.
Maple, Sugar Cane, Sorghum.
[Surely Nature, the "Bountiful Mother," has furnished us here a most extensive variety of innocent food, amply sufficient for the supply of all our proper wants—without descending to the "sacrilegious taste of blood."]
(B.)
VEGETARIAN LIFE.
No skinning of eels, no chopping of hash,
No beating of steak with rude clatter and crash;
No frying of pork with its frizzling sound,
In which tones more pleasant are haplessly drowned;
No grease on the cloth and no saving of swill,
With loathsome diseases doomed porkers to fill;
No spoiling of meats, and no fear of the flies;
They harmlessly buzz o'er the food of the wise;
No stewing of oysters (the dull, sluggish things;)
Nor turtles nor fishes—naught that bites nor that stings
No whiskey, no beer, no brandy or wine,
O'er which men grow noisy, or prone as the swine;
The sweet singing-bird is not stayed in her flight
To glut the gross maw of some death-dealing wight—
Nor lamb, nor the ox, nor sensual swine
Unfeelingly slain for the human canine.
(There's no milking of cows to rob the poor calves,
No grumbling, no hypo, no living by halves;
No churning, no butter, no making of cheese,
