ingly over the weary traveller, to the gentle Mimosa, shrinking in its reproachful sensitiveness from rude approach, they mark the dearest, loveliest traits of human being.

The offering of flowers, in all ages and in all climes, is the sweetest gift of the lover and the friend. Speaking, like the eye and the lip, what the tongue may not reveal, they are the fitting interpreters of the deep heart thoughts, and while love exists, flowers will ever be its dearest language.

ACACIA.

Acacia, sp.-Class 23, Order 1.

A shrub with elegant foliage and flowers; native
of warm climates.

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CHASTE LOVE.

LIFE of my soul! the love I bear thee
Is pure and holy, yet as deep
As theirs who nightly hover near thee
To guard thy spirit even in sleep,
And vigils o'er thy slumbers keep.

The angels, who do love thee, dearest,
Might share in holy love with me,
And when their whispering thou hearest,
Be sure my spirit speaks to thee-
For my own language theirs will be!

Dearest! wouldst know how I do love thee?
It is not with an earthly fire-
But as the blessed stars above thee,
Which we may love, yet not desire-
And loving, to be like aspire!

Duganne.

APPLE BLOSSOM.

Pyrus Malus,-Class 12, Order 1.

The flower of a well-known fruit.

PREFERENCE.

DISTRUST me not, mine own,
My sighs are all for thee-
On thee I think alone,
Whate'er my fate may be.

Then smile, beloved, smile,
Dispel those maiden fears,
I would not thus beguile
Thy tenderness to tears.

If others be as fair,

What are their charms to me,

I neither know nor care,

For thou art all to me.

Mrs. Seba Smith.

ALOE.

Aloe-Class 6, Order 1.

A medicinal plant, and a native of Egypt.

SORROW-DEJECTION.

O! TAKE away that wreath of flowers,
Nor bind it on my brow;

For what was bright in former hours,
Is dark and cheerless now.

There is no light shed on my way,
Ev'n hope's pale beam has fled,
And those I loved, have gone for aye-
To the cold realms of the dead.

Then take away that wreath of flowers,
Nor bind it on my brow,

For what was bright in former hours
Is dark and cheerless now.

Marcia Hall.

AMARANTH.

Amarantus-Class 21, Order 5.

A coarse and rather tall plant, a native of India.

IMMORTALITY.

I MAY not wholly die! The green-leaved tree May by the lightning's fearful stroke be rent; Its lordly trunk may to the earth be bent, And die-but there is no such death for me.

As the tree falleth it shall rest for aye, When the flower droops it will not bloom again;

Nor shal! the bird by some rude archer slain, Awake and sing-but I may never die

Though through my veins the blood may cease to fly;

Though from my eye the lustre may depart, And the quick pulses stop within the heart; Yet, even in death, I cannot wholly die!

J. L. Chester.