COLUMBINE. Aquilegia. Class 13, POLYANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This graceful flower has long been a favourite inhabitant of the rustic flower border, and is commonly found in the open places of forests, or extensive woods. It has been made the emblem of folly ;-why, it is difficult to say.

FOLLY.

Bring Lilies for a maiden's grave,
Roses to deck the bride,

Tulips for all who love thro' life

In brave attire to ride:

Bring each for each, in bower and hall,
But cull the Columbine for all.

"The Columbine? full many a flower
Hath hues more clear and bright,
Although she doth in purple go,
In crimson, pink, and white.
Why, when so many fairer shine,
Why choose the homely Columbine ?"

"Know ye the cap which Folly wears
In ancient masques and plays?

Does not the Columbine recal

That toy of olden days?

And is not Folly reigning now

O'er many a wisdom-written brow?

""Tis Folly's flower, that homely one;

That universal guest

Makes every garden but a type

Of every human breast;

For though ye tend both mind and bower,
There's still a nook for Folly's flower."

TWAMLEY

ONVOLVULUS, or SEA BINDWEED. Calystegia Soldanella. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. Botanists have recently separated this flower from the genus Convolvulus, and name it Calystegia, from two Greek words signifying pretty, and a covering, the calyx of the flower being co

vered by two leaf-like appendages called bracts.

UNCERTAINTY.

On the low sandy shore,
Where, with a mighty roar,
Breakers, with foam-crest hoar,

Long years have roll'd;-
Where the turf never springs,
Where the wind's buffetings
Tear the poor flower, that clings
To the rock cold.

There, Lady, low and lone,

Where, on the storm-blast's moan,
Comes the wreck'd sailor's groan,

Is my chill dwelling;

I hear the signal gun,

Ere the storm's work is done;
I know that help is none,
I know the good ship's gone,
I know the tempest's won
The triumph 'tis telling.

TWAMLEY

Hope and fear alternate sway'd his breast,
Like light and shade upon a waving field,
Coursing each other, when the flying clouds
Now hide, and now reveal the sun.

HOME.

ONVOLVULUS. WHITE BINDWEED. Calystegia Sepium. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This perennial twiner is a species of convolvulus, and is a very troublesome plant in the cornfield, where it || is very commonly found. It is a simple flower; and probably on account of this quality it has been made the emblem of humility.

HUMILITY.

Lady, I dwell in the shady wood,
Beneath the ancient trees;

And I hang o'er gnarled bole and branch
My dainty tapestries.

I lie on my couch of arrowy leaves,
And slumber with closed eye,

And only look out from my curtain'd bower,
When the sun is rising high.

O'er bank and hedge, like a fairy camp,

Gleam tent-like flowers of mine;

And elvish folk lie basking there,
All through the noontide shine.

I love the river's sedgy bank,
Where purple loose-strife bends,
Near fleur-de-lis, and meadow-sweet,
All those dear ancient friends.

I love to twine around them all,
And with fond arms to cling

Around the cluster'd stems and flowers
In many a mazy ring.

TWAMLEY.

ONVOLVULUS, FIELD. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This small pink flower rejoices in as many titles as any royal prince, for it is so common and so troublesome, as to have made itself a name in all rural vocabularies; among others, it is known as Weed-bind, Rope-weed, Bellbind, Bell-wind, With-wind, and Hedgebells.

CAPTIVATION.

Come from the dim woods, come from the sea,
Come to the meadows and laugh with me;
Great heavy trees are gloomy things,
And dismally ever old Neptune sings;
Come to the meadows bright,
Where, in the sunny light,
Over the blades of grass
Soft-winged zephyrs pass;

Come with me there.
Come to the uplands high,
Where the rich cornfields lie
Golden and rare.

Come from the shady woods,

Come from the roaring floods,

Come, where the meadows lie fragrant and fair!

We merry flowers are running

The meadow mazes through;

And be the farmers e'er so cunning,

We're as cunning too!

And many a time the Farmer vows

He'll banish us his land;

TWAMLEY.

And we still run up the Hawthorn bough,
A merry and myriad band.

TWAMLEY.

RANBERRY. Oxycoccus. Class 8, OCTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This useful berry is very abundant in the United States. It commonly grows in and about the little pools of the swampy moorlands, and the gatherers are often obliged to wade into the water to come at them, so that the pittance they thus win is dearly earned. The botanical name is one of odd sound but good meaning, being oxycoccus, from two Greek words meaning acid and fruit.

HARDINESS.

The Cranberry blossom dwelleth there

Amid the mountains cold,

Seeming like a fairy gift

Left on the dreary wold.

Oh! and 't is very beautiful,

The flowers are pink and white,
And the small oval polish'd leaves
Are evergreen and bright.

"Tis such a wee, fair, dainty thing,
You'd think a greenhouse warm
Would be its proper dwelling place,
Kept close from wind and storm.

But on the moors it dwelleth free
Like a fearless mountain child;
With a rosy cheek, a lightsome look,
And a spirit strong and wild.
The bushes all in water grow,
In those small pools that lie
In scores among the turfy knolls
On mountains broad and high.

TWAMLEY.