SWEETBRIAR.

Rosa suaveoleus. Class 12; Order 13. The American Sweetbriar has pale pink flowers, small and often solitary. Foliage, very fragrant.

SIMPLICITY.

Yes, lovely flower, I find in thee

Wild sweetness which no words express,

And charms in thy simplicity,

That dwell not in the pride of dress.

SENTIMENT.

LANGHORNE.

Oh, much I fear thy guileless heart, its earnestness

of feeling,

Its passions and its sympathies to every eye revealing; I tremble for that winning smile, and trusting glance

of thine,

And pray that none but faithful ones may bow before thy shrine.

Oh! when the breath of flattery is warm upon thine

ear,

And manly brows are bending in humble homage near, May no dream of tenderness arise, which earth may

not fulfil,

And no fountain open in thy heart which Time hath power to chill.

WHITTIER.

SWEET WILLIAM.

Dianthus barbatus. Class 10; Order 2. The species Dianthus barbatus indigenous to Germany, but naturalized in our coun try. Flowers, aggregate, one stem supporting a large and brilliant bunch of blossoms. Root, perennial.

A SMILE.

I like this flower, Sweet William, on its leaf
The smile the giver wore I see,

And though that smile, so sweet, was passing brief,
This simple flower can fix its memory.

SENTIMENT.

A human smile! how beautiful

Sometimes its blissful presence seems,
Sweet as the gentle airs which lull
To sleep the holy flowers of Gul,
Which blossom in the Persian's dreams,

A lovely light whene'er it beams
On beauty's brow, in beauty's eye,
And not one token lingers nigh,
On lip, or eye, or cheek unbidden,
To tell of anguish vainly hidden!
But, oh! there is a smile which steals
Sometimes upon the brow of care,

And, like the North's cold light, reveals
But gathering darkness there.

ANON.