ILY. Lilium Candidum. Class 6, HEXANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. All nations agree in making this flower the symbol of purity and modesty; and its beauty and delicacy have ever been the theme of admiration with the poets, from the time of Solomon to the present day.

PURITY AND MODESTY.

Where may the bright flower be met
That can match with Margaret,—
Margaret, stately, staid, and good,
Growing up to womanhood:

Loving, thoughtful, wise, and kind,
Pure in heart and strong in mind?
Eyes deep blue as is the sky
When the full moon sails on high;
Eye-brow true and forehead fair,
And dark, richly-braided hair,
And a queenly head well set,

Crown my maiden Margaret.

Where's the flower that thou canst find

Match for her in form and mind?

Fair, white lilies, having birth

Observe the rising lily's snowy grace;

Observe the various vegetable race;

HOWITT.

They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow;
Yet, see how warm they blush! how bright they glow!
What regal vestments can with them compare?
What king so shining, or what queen so fair?

THOMSON.

Class 21,

Order: POLYANDRIA. The

Live Oak is found from 37° to Florida, and westward to the mouth of the Sabine river, but never more than 15 or 20 miles from the sea. It attains the height of 40 or 45 feet, with a trunk a foot or two in diameter,

but is sometimes much larger. The wood is the finest material we have for ship-building, is much stronger and more durable than the White Oak, and, indeed, is said to be no way inferior to the European species. In consequence of its narrow limits and the more profitable culture of Cotton in the districts where it abounds, its total extinction is considered certain at no distant day.

LIBERTY.

O Liberty! with profitless endeavour
Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour;

But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever
Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power.
Alike from all, howe'er they praise thee,
(Not prayer, nor boastful name delays thee,)
Alike from Priestcraft's harpy minions,
And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves;
Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions,

The guide of homeless winds, and playmate of the waves!
And there I felt thee! on that sea-cliff's verge,
Whose pines, scarce travell'd by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love

O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.

The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself th' inferior gift of heaven.

COLERIDGE.

DRYDEN.

OBELIA. Lobelia Fulgens. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. Of the genus Lobelia there are nearly one hundred species, most of them indigenous in America, South Africa, and Australasia. One of the species has obtained great notoriety in consequence of its being applied to the purposes of the Thompsonian practitioners in medicine.

ARROGANCE.

With proud disdain how she uprears her stem,
Unbending, tall;

As if she arrogantly, vainly said

"What are ye all,

Pale, paltry buds, that trail and creep around,
Scarce rising from the base and sordid ground?

See how the butterflies, with gay-plumed wings
On me alight-

Attracted by my tow'ring, stately stem,

And colours bright

None in my presence cast a thought on you-
Their homage paid to me, away they go."

So seem'd this gaudy flower to discourse
Unto the fair,

Humble, and lowly buds, which all around
Disposed were;

And much her scorn on their mean rank was bent;
Which scorns howe'er brought them no discontent.

TWAMLEY.

He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is

His own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
And whatever praises itself but in

The deed, devours the deed in the praise.

SHAKSPEARE.

OCUST. Robinia pseudacacia. Clas DIADELPHIA. Order: DECANDRIA. Locust is found native in the valleys o Alleghanies, and throughout the Wes States, but everywhere mixed with other trees, not occupying exclusively soil, even of limited districts. It is planted about houses in all parts of the Union, as it has a r growth, but unfortunately it is very generally liable from the attacks of an insect (Callidium flexuosum). is superior to that of most trees of northern climates. sought for in naval architecture, and is substituted for box turners: for trunnels it is used almost exclusively.

VICISSITUDE.

The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay,
Tempts, and then flies:
What is this world's delight?.
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.

Virtue, how frail it is!

Friendship, too rare!

Love, how it sells poor bliss

For proud despair!

But we, though soon they fall,

Survive their joy, and all

Which ours we call.

Whilst skies are blue and bright,

Whilst flowers are gay,

Whilst eyes that change ere night

Make glad the day;

Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou:- and from thy sleep
Then wake to weep!

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