LUE-BOTTLE. Centaurea Cyanus. Class 19, SYNGENESIA. Order: FRUSTRANEA. The beautiful blue of this flower, which is of the colour of an unclouded sky, has made it the emblem of a tender and delicate sentiment, nourished by hope. According to ancient

fable, this plant was called Cyanus, after a youth of that name, whose attachment to corn-flowers was so strong, that he employed his time chiefly in making garlands of them, seldom leaving the fields so long as his favourite flower was to be found, and always dressing himself in the fine blue colour of the flower he so much admired. Flora was his goddess; and, of all her gifts, this was the one he most admired. At last the youth was found dead in a corn-field, in the midst of a quantity of blue-bottles he had gathered. Soon after Flora transformed his body into this flower, in token of the veneration he had for her divinity.

DELICACY.

Thou wilt, I trust, find other hearts to bless,
And other verdant spots in life's dull waste,
And if my years roll on in loneliness,
Still I must tarry where my lot is cast, -
A martyr-task perchance - but not the less
Will I fulfil it-it must end at last,

And I will strive on other hearts to pour

The gifts of gladness mine may know no more!
I am but what I was before we met-

Beloved by some because my face is fair,
Because my brow throbs 'neath a coronet,
Because my brother is Ferrara's heir,-
But still in solitude I must forget

That one has known my inmost thoughts to share:
I must return amid the reckless throng,

To the deep silence I have nursed so long.

ANON.

ONUS HENRICUS, or GOO Chenopodium. Class 5, PENTAN der: DIGYNIA. The French pe given the name of their beloved ki IV., to a beneficent and useful pla grows for the poor, and indeed see sively to belong to them.

In 1 flourishes without any cultivation, and forms the aspar spinach of the poor; in England it is known also as wil The leaves are said to be of great service when applied t Happy is that king who deserves an homage so univers simple!

GOODNESS.

Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.

SHAKSP

God's benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of fo

SHAKSP

He was too good to be

Where ill men were; and was the best of all
Amongst the rar'st of good ones.

SHAKSPE

A most incomparable man; breathed, as it were,
To an untirable and continuate goodness.

So far as May doth other months exceed,
So far in virtue and in goodlihead

SHAKSPEA

Above all other nymphs Tanathe bears the meed.

Your very goodness and your company

THOMSON.

O'erpays all I can do.

SHAKSPEA

OX. Buxus. Class 21, MONCCIA. Order: TETRANDRIA. This tree is made symbolical of a Stoic, on account of the firmness of its wood, which, like the Stoics of old, cannot be warped. The box was formerly a favourite ornament for gardens, being planted in hedges and borders, which were

STOICISM. CONSTANCY.

O foolishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge doctors of the stoic fur,
And fetch their precepts from the cynic tub,
Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.

MILTON.

How goodly looks Cytorus, ever green,

With boxen groves.

DRYDEN.

Nor box, nor limes, without their use are made,
Smooth-grain'd and proper for the turner's trade;
Which curious hands may carve, and seal
With ease invade.

I have won

VIRGIL.

Thy heart, my gentle girl! but it hath been
When that soft eye was on me; and the love
I told beneath the evening influence,

Shall be as constant as its gentle star.
WILLIS.

Why have I not this constancy of mind,
Who have so many griefs to try its force.
ADDISON.

Proud of her birth (for equals he had none),
The rest she scorn'd, but hated him alone;
His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gain'd,
For she, the more he loved, the more disdain'd.

DRYDEN.

ROOM. Genista. Class 17, I Order: DECANDRIA. We presu plant has been made the embl ness from the uses to which it is applied. In our country vil throughout the country, it is kno thrifty housewife as affording sweeping, whence originated the name of "broom" domestic cleansers.

There are many useful species of it. "The broom, Martyn, "converts the most barren spot into an odori den."

NEATNESS.

On me such beauty summer pours,
That I am cover'd o'er with flowers;
And when the frost is in the sky,
My branches are so fresh and gay,
That you might look at me and say,
This plant can never die.

The butterfly, all green and gold,
To me hath often flown,

Here in my blossoms to behold

Wings lovely as his own.

WORDSW

Hypericum, all bloom, so thick a swarm
Of flowers, like flies, clothing her slender rods
That scarce a leaf appears; mezereon too,
Though leafless, well attired, and thick beset
With blushing wreaths, investing every spray
Althea, with the purple eye; the broom,
Yellow and bright, as bullion unalloyed
Her blossoms.

COWPER.

Sweet blooms genista in the myrtle shade.

DARWIN.

RYONY. Bryonea Dioicia. Class 21, MoNŒECIA. Order: TRIANDRIA. The name Bryony, and the botanical one, Bryonea, are derived from a Greek word meaning to push forth, or grow rapidly. The root grows to an enormous size; in former times of ignorance and superstition, cunning impostors

made use of it in their pretended miraculous doings, and sometimes artfully contrived to make the root grow sufficiently like the human figure to be supposed a magical resemblance. They effected this by placing a mould of the shape required round the roots of a healthy young Bryony plant, fastened with wires; and such is the rapid growth of the root, that the image would be formed in one summer.

PROSPERITY.

The slender Bryony that weaves
His pale green flowers and glossy leaves
Aloft in smooth and lithe festoons;
And crown'd compact with yellow cones,
'Mid purple petals dropp'd with green,
The woody nightshade climbs between.

MANT.

Nightshade's purple flowers,
Hanging so sleepily their turban'd heads,
Rested upon the hedge; and Bryony,
So lavish of its vinelike growth, o'erhung
And canopied the flowers; while soften'd gleams
Of sunlight, falling through the leafy screen,
Shed a faint emerald tinge upon them all.

TWAMLEY.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

WEBSTER.