EVERLASTING.

Gnaphalium.

Class 19. Order 2. An extensive genus
mostly indigenous to the Cape of Good
Hope, but found in Europe and America,
The American has white flowers.

ALWAYS REMEMBERED.

Gnaphalium, like the thoughts we lovę,
Can every change and season prove.

SENTIMENT.

I think of thee, when morning springs
From sleep with plumage bathed in dew,
And like a young bird lifts her wings
Of gladness on the welkin blue;
And when at noon the breath of love
O'er flower and stream is wandering free,
And sent in music from the grove,
I think of thee-I think of thee.

I think of thee, when soft and wide
The evening spreads her robes of light,
And, like a young and timid bride,
Sits blushing in the arms of night:

Anon.

And when the moon's sweet crescent springs
In light o'er heaven's deep waveless sea,
And stars are forth like blessed things,

I think of thee-I think of thee.

G. W. Prentice.

ANSWER.

I would not hush that constant theme
Of hope and reverie,

For every day and nightly dream,

Whose lights across my dark brain gleam,

Is filled with thee.

Atlantic Souvenir, 1832.

FLAX.
Linum.

Class 4.

Order 5. An extensive genus-the

American and European species similar. Flowers blue; sometimes yellow.

DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.

Inventress of the woof, fair Lina flings

The flying shuttle through the dancing strings,
Inlays the broidered weft with flowery dyes.

Darwin.

SENTIMENT.

'Tis happily contrived that man is made
With tastes and powers of ever-varying shade;
Hence every one the other's wants subserves,
And each her own peculiar praise deserves;
As well the housewife 'neath the humble roof,
Plying the wheel, and laboring warp and woof,
As the gay charmer, mistress of the heart,
Who plays in higher life a brighter part:
But she above all competition towers,
Who adds to other gifts high mental powers-
This is the friend, in all the scenes of life,
The kind companion, and the loving wife.

E. Lincoln.

FIR.

(Balm of Gilead.) Class 21. Order 16. A genus consisting of near 40 species, found in Europe, North America, Barbary, India and China.

Pinus, balsamea.

TIME.

And Fir, from which the wand of Time is framed.

Anon.

SENTIMENT.

When summer's sunny hues adorn
Sky, forest, hill and meadow,
The foliage of the evergreen
In contrast seems a shadow.

But when the tints of autumn have
Their sober reign asserted,

The landscape that cold shadow shows
Into a light converted.

Thus thoughts that frown upon our mirth
Will smile upon our sorrow,
And many dark fears of to-day
May be bright hopes to-morrow.

Pinckney.

FLOWER OF AN HOUR.
Hybiscus, trionum.

Class 16. Order 7. A tropical genus, chiefly found in America and India. The flowers of some are splendid.

DELICATE BEAUTY.

Why art thou doomed, sweet flower? Is it because thy beauty is too bright, Thou hast but one short hour

To spread thy fair leaves to the enamored light? 'Tis thus the loved and loveliest first decayBut their remembrance may not pass away.

Anon.

SENTIMENT.

The lily may die on thy cheek,

With freshness no longer adorning;

The rose that envelopes its whiteness

may

seek

To take back her mantle of morning;

Yet still will Love's tenderness beam from thine eye,

And ask for that homage no heart can deny.

Thy dark hair may blanch where it bends

Over eyes of cerulean hue,

That melt with the softness the summer-noon lends

To mellow her pathway of blue;

Yet long will the smile that illumines thy brow

Live on, as it lives in thy loveliness now.

Dawes.

ANSWER.

The spirit hath a chord that clings
To lights that fade and waste;
And places trust in fragile, things,
That should on God be placed.

Mrs. L. P. Smith.

The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquillize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.

Percival.

ANSWER.

They waken,

Such thoughts as these, an energy,

A spirit that will not be shaken

Till frail mortality shall die.

They make man nobler than his race,

And give expansion, strength, to thought:

The tears that start leave not a trace,

For they are fragrant tears, and fraught
With soothing power; they heal and bless
Thy spirit in its loneliness.

Willis.