IVY.

Hedera Helix,-Class 3, Order 1.

Tall climbing vines, covering trees and old walls, bearing green flowers.

CLING TO ME.

'Tis sweet, beloved, to have thee nigh,
In pleasant converse, thus with me,
For while these social moments fly,
I feel my heart still clings to thee.
Yes, clings to thee with stronger ties
Than e'er I felt or knew before,
As day by day some charm supplies

That makes me bless thee more and more.

Thou r't dear to me through all of time,
And in that hour when life takes wing,
The thought serene-the hope sublime-
Departing, still to thee shall cling,
But should thou, love, first sink to sleep,
And light my worldly path no more,
My soul shall wait and watch and weep,
And cling to thee, though gone before.
Thomas G. Spear.

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JAPONICA CAMELLIA.

Camellia sp.-Class 16, Order 7.

A magnificent evergreen plant, with single or double crimson, red, pink or white blossoms.-Japan.

MY DESTINY IS IN YOUR HANDS.

LEAVE me not, thou brightest one-
All is joy when thou art near-
Thou canst teach my soul to shun
Paths of gloom and thoughts of fear.
I am like the cloud of night,
Clothed in gloom and mystery-
Thou the beaming morning light,
Causing all its gloom to flee.

I am like the airy kite,

Soaring in the sky above-
Guided in my lofty flight,

By the thread of my sweet love.

Ah! should fate the chord divide
That connects my heart with thine-
Wavering, then, without a guide,
Darkness and despair are mine.

Duganne.

KING CUP.

Ranunculus Bulbosus,-Class 13, Order 4.

A gold colored flower, growing double under cultivation, found in Europe and North America.

I WISH I WAS RICH.

O knew I the spell of gold,

I would never poison a fresh young heart,
With the taint of customs old,

I would bind no wreath to my forehead free,
In whose shadows a thought might die,
Nor drink, from the cup of revelry,
The ruin my gold would buy.

But I'd break the fetters of care-worn things,
And be spirit and fancy free;

My mind should go, where it longs to go,
And the limitless wind outflee.

I'd climb to to the eyries of eagle men,
Till the stars became a scroll,
And pour right on, like the even sea,
In the strength of a governed soul.

Willis.

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LABURNUM.

Cytisus Laburnum,-Class 17, Order .4

A slender shrub, with drooping branches of yellow biossoms, looking like necklaces of gold.---Switzerland.

PENSIVE BEAUTY.

ART thou not near me, with thy earnest eyes, That weep forth sympathy!-thy holy brow, Whereon such sweet imaginings do rise: Art thou not near me, when I call thee now, Maid of my childhood's vow!

Even like an angel, smiling 'mid the storm, Wert thou amid the darkness of my woesThy pure thoughts clustering around thy form, Like seraph garments, whiter than the snows Which the wild sea upthrows.

Now I behold thee, with thy sorrowing smile, And thy deep soul uplooking from thy face, While sweetly crost upon thy breast the while, Thy white hands do thy holy heart embrace, In its calm dwelling-place!

Duganne.

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LADYS SLIPPER.

Cypripodium Aeante,-Class 20, Order 2.

An humble plant, with two large leaves only, and a large pink blossom.-New England.

Now, out upon this smiling,
No smile shall meet his sight;
And a word of gay reviling
Is all he'll hear to night,
For he'll hold my smiles too lightly,
If he always sees me smile;
He'll think they shine more brightly,
When I have frowned awhile.

'Tis not kindness keeps a lover,
He must feel the chain he wears;
All the sweet enchantment's over,
When he has no anxious cares.
The heart would seem too common,
If he thought that heart his own;
Ah! the empire of a woman

Is still in the unknown.

L. E. Landon.