ARBOR-VITE.
Thuja.

(False White Cedar.) Class 21. Order 18. Mostly small trees. Indigenous to N. America and Siberia; also found in China, Japan and the Cape of Good Hope. The wood was formerly used in making images.

UNCHANGING FRIENDSHIP.

The true and only friend is he
Who, like the Arbor-vita tree,
Will bear our image on his heart.

Sir Wm. Jones.

SENTIMENT.

The dim lights

Which man has set upon the way of life,
And called its pleasures, must by fiat fade,
And leave the beacon only that's within!
O then for quiet, or the meaner home,
Where fashion reigns not, and the weary heart
Beats but to one, and answers pulse with pulse.
Then for the soul's own circle, never broken
By the rude foot that tramples on the flowers
Of all our best affections.

Grenville Mellen.

ANSWER.

Where'er thou journeyest, or whate'er thy care,
My heart shall follow, and my spirit share.-

Mrs. Sigourney.

AURICULA, SCARLET.
Primula auricula.

Class 5. Order 1. Perennial, flowering early; most of the species alpine, flowers of almost every color.

PRIDE.

Where, rayed in sparkling dust and velvet pride,
Like brilliant stars arranged in splendid row,
The proud Auriculas their lustre show.

Kliest.

SENTIMENT.

'Tis not the fairest form, that holds
The mildest, purest soul within;
"Tis not the richest plant that folds
The sweetest breath of fragrance in:

Then, lady, cast thy pride away,

And chase those rebel thoughts of thine;
The casket may be bright and gay,

Yet all within refuse to shine:

For, should misfortune ever lower,

"T will cloud those charms that dazzle so; And friends who greet thy fortune's power, Will smile upon its overthrow.

Dawes.

BACHELOR'S BUTTON.

Lychnis, dioica.

Class 10. Order 2. Red or White Field Campion. Flowers in June.

HOPE IN LOVE.

Flora's choice Buttons of a mingled dye
Is hope-even in the depths of misery.

SENTIMENT.

Browne.

Never forget our loves, but always cling
To the fixed hope that there will be a time
When we can meet unfettered, and be blest
With the full happiness of certain love.

Percival.

BALM.

Melissa, officinalis.

Class 14. Order 1. European genus, at present including only one species. In many places found in lanes, and along roadsides.

SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

And Balm, that never ceases uttering sweets,
Goes decking the green earth with drapery.

Flora Domestica.

SENTIMENT.

Blessed we sometimes are! and I am now
Happy in quiet feelings; for the tones
Of a most pleasant company of friends
Were in my ear but now, and gentle thoughts
From spirits whose high character I know;
And I retain their influence, as the air
Retains the softness of departed day.

Willis.

With fierce distracted eye Impatiens stands,
Swells her pale cheeks, and brandishes her hands;
With rage and hate the astonished grove alarms,
And hurls her infants from her frantic arms.

Darwin.

SENTIMENT.

There are some things I cannot bear,
Some looks which rouse my angry hate,
Some hearts whose love I would not share,
Till earth and heaven were desolate.

I cannot bear to be with men

Who only see my weaknesses;

Who know not what I might have been,
But scan my spirit as it is:

And when my heart would gush with feeling
To catch one kind, one sunny look,

When love would be a leaf of healing,
But scorn a thing I will not brook-
Oh, it is hard to put the heart

Álone and desolate away,

To curl the lip, in pride, and part

With the kind thoughts of yesterday.
'Tis strange they know not that the chill
Of their own looks hath made me cold;
What though my words fall seldom, still
Their own proud bearing hath controlled
My better feelings. They forget

I have a heart of kindness yet.

Willis.