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 Loving, thoughtful, wise, and kind, 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; 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 But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever The guide of homeless winds, and playmate of the waves! O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there. The love of liberty with life is given, 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, As if she arrogantly, vainly said "What are ye all, Pale, paltry buds, that trail and creep around, See how the butterflies, with gay-plumed wings Attracted by my tow'ring, stately stem, And colours bright None in my presence cast a thought on you- So seem'd this gaudy flower to discourse Humble, and lowly buds, which all around And much her scorn on their mean rank was bent; TWAMLEY. He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is His own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; 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, 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, to in The w It is m SHELLEY. |