The Harebell-as if with grief depressed,
Bowing her fragrance.

SENTIMENT.

Yet thou, didst thou but know my fate,
Wouldst melt, my tears to see;
And I, methinks, would weep the less,
Wouldst thou but weep with me.

Gisborne.

Percival.

ANSWER.

Alas, for earthly joy, and hope, and love,
Thus stricken down, e'en in their holiest hour!
What deep, heart-wringing anguish must they prove,
Who live to weep the blasted tree or flower.
Oh, wo, deep wo to earthly love's fond trust,
When all it once has worshipped lies in dust!

Mrs. Embury

HAWTHORN.
Cratagus.

Class 12. Order 2. Principally a North American genus, but found in Europe, the Levant, and India. Flowers scarlet.

HOPE.

And Hawthorn's early blooms appear,
Like youthful hope upon life's year.

Drayton.

SENTIMENT.

Gay was the love of paradise he drew
And pictured in his fancy; he did dwell
Upon it till it had a life; he threw

A tint of heaven athwart it-who can tell
The yearnings of his heart, the charm, the spell,
That bound him to that vision?

Percival.

ANSWER.

Hidden, and deep, and never dry,

Or flowing, or at rest,

A living spring of hope doth lie

In every human breast.

All else may fail that soothes the heart,

All, save that fount alone;

With that and life at once we part,

For life and hope are one.

Mrs. Wells.

HEART'S EASE.
Viola, tricolor.

Class 5. Order 1. The genus Viola is almost equally divided between Europe and North America. Flowers blue, purple, white, and every variety of color.

LOVE IN IDLENESS.

This flower (as Nature's poet sweetly sings)
Was once milk-white, and Heart's Ease was its name,
Till wanton Cupid poised his roseate wings,

A vestal's sacred bosom to inflame.

Heart's Ease no more the wandering shepherd found;
No more the Nymphs its snowy form possess;
Its white now changed to purple by Love's wound-
Heart's Ease no more, 't is 'Love in Idleness.'

SENTIMENT.

Mrs. R. B. Sheridan.

As we look back through life in our moments of sadness, How few, and how brief are its gleamings of gladness; Yet we find, midst the gleam that our pathway o'ershaded,

A few spots of sunshine,-a few flowers unfaded:And memory still hoards, as her richest of treasures, Some moments of rapture,- -some exquisite pleasures. One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes, 'Tis one drop of fragrance from thousands of roses.

ANSWER.

Wetmore.

They tell me the vision of bliss that is glinting,
My heart's star of promise in gloom will decline,
And the fair scene that Fancy, the fairy, is tinting,
Will lose all its sunny glow ere it is mine.

O, if Love and Life be but a fairy illusion,

And the cold future bright but in Fancy's young eye, Still, let me live in the dreamy delusion,

And, true and unchanging, hope on till I die.

Mrs. Osgood.

HELIOTROPE.
Heliotropium.

(Turnsol.) Class 5. Order 1. This genus is principally found in South America, a few in the south of Europe, and in India. Flowers white, or faint purple color. Turns towards the sun.

DEVOTION.

Still the loved object the fond leaves pursue;
Still move their root the morning sun to view;
And in the Heliotrope the Nymph is true.

Eusden's Ovid.

SENTIMENT.

When other friends are round thee,
And other hearts are thine;
When other bays have crowned thee,
More fresh and green than mine;-
Then think how sad and lonely
This wretched heart will be;
Which, while it beats-beats only,
Beloved one! for thee.

Yet do not think I doubt thee;
I know thy truth remains;
I would not live without thee,
For all the world contains.
Thou art the star that guides me
Along life's troubled sea;-
Whatever fate betides me,

This heart still turns to thee.

G. P. Morris.

HELLEBORE.
Helleborus, niger.

Class 13. Order 13. Found in the south of Europe principally. The species Trifolius, native of North America. Flowers greenish.

CALUMNY.

By the witches' tower,

Where Hellebore and Hemlock seem to weave
Round its dark vaults a melancholy bower.

SENTIMENT.

Campbell.

Curse the tongue

Whence slanderous rumor, like the adder's drop,
Distils her venom, withering friendship's faith,
Turning love's favor.

Hillhouse.