INK. Dianthus. Class 10, DECANDRIA. Order: DIGYNIA. Cultivation has doubled the petals of this favourite flower, and procured for it an infinite variety of colouring, so that it is painted with a thousand shades, from the delicate rose-colour to the perfect white; and from a deep red to a brilliant scarlet. In some varieties we observe opposite colours placed together on the same flower; the pure white is tipped with crimson, and the rose-coloured is streaked with lively and brilliant red. We also see these beautiful flowers marbled, speckled, and at other times bisected in such manner that the deceived eye leads us to imagine that the same cup contains a purple flower, and one of palest alabaster.

LIVELY AND PURE AFFECTION.

Each pink sends forth its choicest sweet,
Aurora's warm embrace to meet.

ROBINSON.

True love's the gift which God has given

To man alone beneath the heaven.

It is the secret sympathy,

The silver cord, the silken tie,

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,

In body and in soul can bind.

SCOTT.

TWAMLEY.

LANE TREE. Platanus. Class 21, MONCECIA. Order: POLYANDRIA. The plane tree has been appropriated as the symbol of genius, because the ancient Athenian philosophers generally held their discourses, or retired to study under the agreeable shade of its wide-spreading branches, for which it was greatly esteemed at Athens. Xerxes is said to have been so attracted by the charms of a plane tree, that he caused his army of 1,700,000 men to halt, while he adorned the tree with all his jewels, and with those of his concubines, and the principal lords of his court, until the branches were loaded with ornaments of every kind. He called it his mistress and his goddess; and it was with difficulty that he was persuaded to leave the tree of which he had become so extraordinarily enamoured.

GENIUS.

Not all unnoticed are thy forms of love,
Peerless America! thy mountains rise
With cloudy coronals, and tower above
The vegetable kingdom to the skies,
Calling upon thy sons to gaze with thee,
Starward in homage of the Deity.

Thy rivers swell majestic to the sea
In one eternal diapason, pour

Thy cataracts, the hymn of liberty,

Teaching the clouds to thunder,-on thy shore
The Tritons dash their chariots, and tear
The adamantine echoes from their lair.

Where are thy bards, America? The lyre
Hangs in its listless solitude too long;
Why should the song of nightingales expire,
Because the rooks are screaming-raise their song
And still the dissonance their silence brings!
Bards of the mountain lyre, awake its strings!

DAWES

LUM TREE. Prunus Domestica. Class 12, ICOSANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. Every year the plum tree is covered with an immense quantity of flowers, but unless trained and pruned by the hand of an able gardener of all its superfluous wood, it will only yield fruit once in three years.

KEEP YOUR PROMISES.

If this austere unsociable life

Change not your offer made in heat of blood;
If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds,
Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,
But that it bear this trial, and last love;
Then, at the expiration of the year,
Come challenge me.

SHAKSPEARE.

Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o'erslips me in the day,
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me, for my love's forgetfulness!

SHAKSPEARE.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart;
His heart as far from fraud, as heaven and earth.
SHAKSPEARE.

God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands,
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both.

SHAKSPEARE.

OPLAR, WHITE. Populus Alba. Class 22, DICIA. Order: OCTANDRIA. The white poplar is one of the most valuable of trees, and grows to the height of more than ninety feet, towering its superb head upon a straight silvered trunk. The ancients consecrated it to time, because the leaves are in continual agitation; and being of a blackish green on the upper side, with a thick white cotton on the other; they were supposed to indicate the alternation of day and night.

TIME.

Yes, gentle time, thy gradual, healing hand
Hath stolen from sorrow's grasp the envenom'd dart;
Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart

Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand;
And though my aching breast still heaves the sigh,
Though oft the tear swells silent in mine eye;
Yet the keen pang, the agony is gone;

Sorrow and I shall part; and these faint thrues
Are but the remnant of severer woes.

TIGHE.

"Where is the world," cries Young, "at eighty? Where The world in which a man was born?" Alas!

Where is the world of eight years past? 'Twas thereI look for it 't is gone, a globe of glass!

Crack'd, shiver'd, vanish'd, scarcely gazed on ere
A silent change dissolves the glittering mass.
Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings,
And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings.

BYRON.

The greatest schemes that human wit can forge,
Or bold ambition dares to put in practice,
Depend upon our husbanding a moment.

ROWE.

OPLAR, BLACK. Populus Niger. Class 22, DICECIA. Order: OCTANDRIA. This tree is consecrated to Hercules, who, according to the fable of the ancients, wore a crown made of its foliage when he descended into the infernal regions. This fable accounts for the different shades which the leaf has on either side in the following manner. The leaves on the side next the head of Hercules preserved their natural colour, or, some say, received that dim and pallid hue from the moisture on his brow; while those on the other side, being exposed to the smoke and vapour of the dismal regions he was visiting, were tinged with a darker shade, which they still retain.

COURAGE.

The poplar is by great Alcides worn.

VIRGIL.

The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unshamed, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
Force is of brutes, but honour is of man.

Whate'e: betides, by destiny 't is done,

DRYDEN.

And better bear like men, than vainly seek to shun.

DRYDEN.

Be not dismay'd-fear nurses up a danger;
And resolution kills it in the birth.

PHILLIPS.

The human race are sons of sorrow born;
And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds
Refuse or cranch beneath their load: the brave
Bear theirs without repining.

MALLET