GERANIUM, SILVER-LEAVED.

P. Argentifolium.

RECALL.

The beautiful leaf of this species is much admired.

SENTIMENT.

My heart is with its early dream;
And vainly love's soft power
Would seek to charm that heart anew
In some unguarded hour;

I would not that the worldly ones

Should hear my frequent sigh;

The deer that bears its death-wound, turns

In loneliness to die.

Mrs. Embury.

ANSWER.

I come, I come! Why should I rove
A dreary world like this,

When a voice beloved recalls me back,
To share life's all of bliss?

I come, I come! like the weary bird,
At eve to its sheltered nest;
Like the pilgrim from afar, I come
To a blessed shrine of rest.

Anon.

GILLY-FLOWER.
Cheiranthus, incanus.

Class 15. Order 2. Foun America, Europe, and colder parts of Asia and rica. Flowers bright purple, or white.

SHE IS FAIR.

Fair as the Gilly-flower of garden's sweet.

Gay

SENTIMENT.

Why was the sense of beauty lent to man,
The feeling of fine forms, the taste of soul,
That speaks from eye and lip, and thus will fan
Love in the young beholder?

Percival.

ANSWER.

Oh! it is worse than mockery
To list the flatterer's tone,
To lend a ready ear to thoughts
The cheek must blush to own-
To hear the red lip whispered of,
And the flowing curl and eye
Made constant themes of eulogy,
Extravagant and high,-

And the charm of person worshipped,
In a homage offered not
To the perfect charm of virtue,
And the majesty of thought.

J. G. Whittier.

GOLDEN ROD.

Solidago Speciosa.

Class 19. Order 2. The solidago is almost exclusively a North American genus. Flowers bright yellow. Found in all the States.

ENCOURAGEMENT.

The Golden Rod, that blossoms in the wild,
Whispers a tale of Hope to Fancy's child.

Anon.

SENTIMENT.

We met, and we drank from the crystalline well,
That flows from the fountains of science above;
On the beauties of thought we would silently dwell,
Till we looked-tho' we never were talking of love.
Percival.

ANSWER.

I could not bid those visions spring
Less frequently;

For each wild phantom which they bring,
Moving along on fancy's wing,

But pictures thee.

Atlantic Souvenir, 1832.

GRAPE, WILD.
Vitis, vinifera.

Class 5. Order 1. North America many species of wild grape, though vinifera is not indigenous. Flo numerous, small, green, and fragra

MIRTH.

Let dimpled Mirth his temples twine
With tendrils of the laughing Vine.

SENTIMENT.

I heard the gushing of thy voice,
Thy laugh of happy mirth-
A bright fount in a pleasant place,
To cheer the shaded earth.
I caught the glancing of thine eye,
Its gleam of young delight-
A sunbeam on a dewy bank,
Each floweret's eye to light.
And all the poet's spell can give
Is in this simple prayer,

That no chill wind of sorrow come
To ice the fountain there.

That no dark cloud of grief may rise
The pleasant glance to shade;
But that pure stream of joy gush on,
That sun-gleam never fade.

Scot

Miller

GRASS.
Gramina.

Class 3.

Order 2. There are more than 300

species of Grasses. They constitute, according to Linnæus, about a sixth part of all the vegetables on the globe.

SUBMISSION:

Grass, according to Herodotus, was the symbol of submission, because the ancient nations of the West, to show that they confessed themselves overcome, gathered grass, and presented it to the conqueror. (See note to Book 4, Melpomene.)

SENTIMENT.

O, when affliction's friendly screen
Shuts out life's vain illusive scene-
When thus she seals our weary eyes
To all its glittering vanities,
A gleam of heavenly light will pour
Our dark desparing spirits o'er,
And Faith, with meek, submissive eye,
Far glancing through eternity,

Sees where the heavenly mansions rise,
Of her bright home beyond the skies;
Whose golden fanes sublimely tower
High o'er the clouds that round us lower.
Then welcome sorrow's shrouding shade;
Fade-scenes of earthly splendor, fade!
And leave me to the dawning ray,
Which brightens till the perfect day.'
American Ladies' Magazine, Vol. I.