GERANIUM, OAK.

Umbels sub-many-flowered. Flow

P. Quercifolium. ers pale blue.

TRUE FRIENDSHIP.

SENTIMENT.

When thou art near,

The sweetest joys still sweeter seem,

The brightest hopes more bright appear, And life is all one happy dream,

When thou art near.

Robert Sweney.

GERANIUM, MOURNING. Umbels simple; leaves roughhaired, pinnate. Flowers dark

P. Triste.

green.

DESPONDENCY.

SENTIMENT.

Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves behind
A deep impression, e'en when she departs:
While joy trips by with steps light as the wind,
And scarcely leaves a trace upon our hearts
Of her faint foot-falls: only this is sure,

In this world nought, save misery, can endure.
Mrs. Ambury.

ANSWER.

Lone Minstrel of the pensive lyre,
O! let not grief attune thy lay;
For sadness blights each holier fire,
And scatters gloom o'er all thy way.
Then, Minstrel, when thy heart is sad,
Betake thee to the flowery field,
Where beauty walks in young spring clad,
And hope and joy their influence yield.
Then tell me, is there nought that cheers
Amid these pure and lovely things?
No solace in this vale of tears,

From which some little comfort springs?

Miss Stella Phelps.

A love for one whose beauty would have charmed
In Athens. And I know what 'tis to love

A spiritual beauty, and behind the foil
Of an unblemished loveliness, still find
Charms of a higher order, and a power
Deeper and more resistless. Had I found

Such thoughts and feelings, such a clear deep stream
Of mind in one whom vulgar men had thrown
As a dull pebble from them, I had loved

Not with a love less fond, nor with a flame
Of less devotion.

Percival.

GERANIUM, LEMON.

P. Acerifolium.

Umbels about 5-flowered, leaves 5-lobed, palmate, serrate. Flowers white.

TRANQUILLITY OF MIND:

SENTIMENT.

There is a gentle element, and man
May breathe it with a calm unruffled soul,
And drink its living waters, till his heart
Is pure, and this is human happiness.

Go abroad

Upon the paths of nature, and when all
Its voices whisper, and its silent things
Are breathing the deep beauty of the world,
Kneel at its simple altar, and the God,
Who hath the living waters, shall be there.

Willis.

GERANIUM, Ivy.

P. Peltatum.

BRIDAL FAVOR.

SENTIMENT.

I saw two clouds at morning
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one:

I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the west.

I saw two summer currents

Flow smoothly to their meeting,
And join their course with silent force,
In peace each other greeting.

Calm was their course through banks of green,
While dimpling eddies played between.

Such be your gentle motion,

Till life's last pulse shall beat;

Like summer's beam and summer's stream,

Float on in joy to meet

A calmer sea, where storms shall cease-
A purer sky, where all is peace.

Brainard.