SENTIMENT.

Ambition ambition! I've laughed to scorn
Thy robe and thy gleaming sword;
I would follow sooner a woman's eye,
Or the spell of a gentle word.

But come with the glory of human mind,
And the light of the scholar's brow,
And my heart shall be taught forgetfulness,
And alone at thy altar bow.

Willis.

ANSWER.

-It is wonderful,

That man should hold himself so haughtily,
And talk of an immortal name, and feed
His proud ambition with such daring hopes
As creatures of a more eternal nature
Alone should form.

Percival.

Вох.
Buxus.

Class 21. Order 4.-The Arbores cent Box grows to the height of 12 or 16 feet. The ancients used to clip it into the shape of animals. Native of Europe and America. The Dwarf Box never rises higher than 3 feet. It is used to divide beds from the walks of flower-gardens.

CONSTANCY.

Though youth be past and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like Box that guards the flowerless bed,
And brighter from the contrast seems.

SENTIMENT.

-I have won

Thy heart, my gentle girl! but it hath been
When that soft eye was on me, and the love

Anon.

I told beneath the evening influence

Shall be as constant as its gentle star.

Willis.

BROOME.

Genista.

Class 17. Order 10.-A genus of shrubs almost entirely European. There are three varieties-the yellow, violet, and white flowering.

HUMILITY.

When Dan Sol to slope his wheels began
Amid the Broom did bask him on the ground;
Where the wild thyme and camomile are found;
There would he linger till the latent ray

Of lights sat trembling on the welking bound.

SRNTIMENT.

Thompson.

The rose in thy garden this morning that bloomed,
See, its leaves are all faded and strewn o'er the plain,
And even the zephyr whose breath it perfumed,
Seems sighing to say that all beauty is vain.

But there is a favor that cannot deceive,

That all may confide in to whom it is given ;

And there is a 66 beauty" no time can bereave,

That perfumes with its fragrance the gardens of heaven, 'T is the favor Humility earns from on high:

Shown to all who in virtue's fair pathway shall move; 'T is the beauty of Holiness, never to die, But to blossom forever in bowers above.

Token for 1828.

BUTTER CUP. KING CUP.
Ranunculus. acris.

Class 13. Order 3.-An extensive genus of near 90 species, principally European. Color of the flower, yellow, generally; flowers from May till August.

RICHES.

Bright flowing King-cups promise future wealth

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The golden King-cup shines in the merry month of May.

SEETIMENT.

Thinkest thou the man whose mansions hold
The worldling's pride, the miser's gold,
Obtains a richer prize

Than he who, in his cot at rest,
Finds heavenly peace a willing guest,
And bears the earnest in his breast
Of treasure in the skies?

Southey.

Mrs. Sigourney.

On one so fair, I must believe that heaven

Sent her in kindness, that our hearts might waken
To their own loveliness, and lift themselves,

By such an adoration, from a dark

And groveling world. Such beauty should be worshiped,

And not a thought of weakness or decay

Should mingle with the pure and hallowed dreams,

In which it dwells before us.

Percival.

ANSWER.

How idly of the human heart we speak,
Giving it gods of clay.

Willis

CALYCANTHUS.
C. Floridus.

[Carolina Allspice.] Class 12. Order 5.--Odoriferous and spicy shrubs. Flowers at first dark brown, becoming paler in drying; changing entirely to olive green, scented like ripe apples. A North American genus, with the exception of one species.

BENEVOLENCE

The gifts of love bear golden fruits
In usury to the giver's bosom,

As the spicy Calycanthus shoots

Its wreath of flowers from the leafy blossom. *

Anon.

SENTIMENT.

Wouldst thou from sorrow find a sweet relief,
Or is thy heart oppressed with woes untold?
Balm wouldst thou gather for corroding grief;
Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold?
'Tis when the rose is wrapped in many a fold
Close to its heart, the worm is wasting there
Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled,
Leaf after leaf, its bosom, rich and fair,

Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air.
Rouse to some work of high and holy love,

And thou an angel's happiness shall know.

Carlos Wilcox.

*By cutting off the terminal leaf-buds after the usual season, a succession of flowers may be obtained thoughout the summer; every leaf-bud so extracted being constantly succeeded by two flowers.

Nuttall.

CARNATION.
Dianthus.

Class 10. Order 2.-Flowers solitary, and by rich culture stamens may be mostly changed to petals. Exotic.

PRIDE AND BEAUTY.

And there the beauteous Carnation stood
With proud disdainful eye.-

SENTIMENT.

Zephyrus and Flora.

The chaste Camellia's pure and spotless bloom,
That boasts no fragrance and conceales no thorn.

William Roscoe.