BAY LEAF.
Laurus.

(Bay or Laurel tree.) Class 9. Order 1. According to the Greek fable, Daphne was transformed into the Laurel or Bay tree, and Apollo, her lover, crowned his head with the leaves.

I CHANGE BUT IN DYING.

Flowers seek the light, their beauties to display;
The leaf will smile the same by night as day.

Anon.

SENTIMENT.

In bower and garden rich and rare
There's many a cherished flower,
Whose beauty fades, whose fragance flits
Within the flitting hour.

Not so the simple forest leaf,

Unprized, unnoticed lying

The same through all its little life-
It changes but in dying.

Be such, and only such, my friends;
Once mine, and mine forever;
And here's a hand to clasp in theirs,
That shall desert them never.
And thou be such, my gentle love,
Time, chance, the world defying;
And take, 't is all I have, a heart
That changes but in dying.

G. W. Doane.

Ambition! ambition! I 've laughed to scorn
Thy robe and thy gleaming sword;

I would follow sooner a woman's eye,
Or the spell of a gentle word.

But come with the glory of human mind,
And the light of the scholar's brow,

And my heart shall be taught forgetfulness,
And alone at thy altar bow.

Willis.

ANSWER.

It is wonderful,

That man should hold himself so haughtily,
And talk of an immortal name, and feed
His proud ambition with such daring hopes
As creatures of a more eternal nature
Alone should form.

Percival.

Box.
Buxus.

Class 21. Order 4. The arborescent Box grows to the height of 12 or 16 feet. The ancients used to clip it into the shape of animals. Native of Europe and America. The Dwarf Box never rises higher than three feet. It is used to divide beds from the walks of flower-gardens.

CONSTANCY.

Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like Box, that guards the flowerless bed,
And brighter from the contrast seems.

Anon

SENTIMENT

I have won

Thy heart, my gentle girl! but it hath been
When that soft eye was on me; and the love
I told beneath the evening influence,
Shall be as constant as its gentle star.

M'illia

BROOME.
Genista.

Class 17. Order 10. A genus of shrubs almost entirely European. There are three varieties-the yellow, violet, and white flowering.

HUMILITY.

When Dan Sol to slope his wheels began
Amid the Broome to bask him on the ground,
Where the wild thyme and chamomile are found-
There would he linger, till the latent ray

Of lights sat trembling on the welkin bound.

Thomson.

SENTIMENT.

The rose in thy garden this morning that bloomed,
See its leaves are all faded and strewed o'er the plain,
And even the zephyr, whose breath it perfumed,
Seems sighing to say that all beauty is vain.
But there is a favor that cannot deceive,
That all may confide in to whom it is given;
And there is a 'beauty' no time can bereave,

That perfumes with its fragrance the gardens of heaven:

'Tis the favor Humility earns from on highShown to all who in virtue's fair pathway shall move; 'Tis the beauty of Holiness, never to die, But to blossom forever in bowers above.

Token for 1828.

The golden King-cup shines in the merry month of

May.

SENTIMENT.

Southey.

'Money makes many friends,' the proverb saith:
Had I the means of winning only one,

I'd deem myself the richest man on earth,
Nor envy even Rothschild's golden name.

ANSWER.

Thinkest thou the man whose mansions hold

The worldling's pride, the miser's gold,

Obtains a richer prize

Than he who in his cot, at rest,
Finds heavenly peace a willing guest,

And bears the earnest in his breast

Of treasure in the skies ?

Mrs. Sigourney.