UCHSIA, GLOBEFLOWERED. Fuchsia Globosa. Class 8, OCTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This is a plant of great beauty, perhaps, says Paxton, exceeding any other species or variety of the Fuchsia known. It is dwarf and somewhat spreading, and the slender branches are somewhat sparingly covered with leaves, which are not of a large

size.

CONFIDING LOVE.

Bless the hour Endearment gives!
Who on earth's cold climate lives,
But has felt his heart rejoice,

When woman's smile, and woman's voice,

Hath sent, with magical control,

All sweetness to the soften'd soul?

Oh! Happiness, where art thou found
(If indeed on mortal ground)

But with faithful hearts alone,

That Love and Friendship have made one-
In tenderness and faith sincere,

In affection's sweetest tear.

It was a livelong holiday;

And in that boat, far from the faithless crowd,

They who true love and mutual trust avow'd,
Pursued in peace their solitary way.
And it was bliss to see the manly youth,
Whose look bespoke sincerity and truth,
Gaze upon her he loved, as he could bless
Th' Almighty Being, in the living light
Of whose warm sun he felt such happiness,
Whilst tears of transport almost dimm'd his sight.
BOWLES.

ERANIUM. Pelargonium. Class 16, MoNADELPHIA. Order: HEPTANDRIA. Among the gayest of the floral court are the richly clad Geraniums. Fashion and culture have contributed so much to the aggrandizement of the beautiful tribe of Pelargoniums, or, as they are generally, but erroneously called Geraniums, that they now count a greater number of royal and illustrious titles in their family than any other species of flower can boast.

GENTILITY.

I said the Lily was the queenly flower,

And these bright creatures, sure, her courtiers be!
For they are robed all so royally,

E'en like the glittering guests of regal bower;
And, like them too, their chiefest rank and power
Lie in their sounding titles, and we see
That both do value the embroiderie

Of their gay-tinted garb. In their first hour
Of modish fame, see how to both down bend,
In fashion's homage, all the wondering crowd
Of sycophant adorers! Should chance send

A newer star, how soon into a cloud
Shrink the late idols! whom no more ye find;
Nor have they either left ye any sweet behind.

Athenia is a noble gentlewoman,

Stamp'd in the finest mould of excellence.

TWAMLEY.

Rome in her palmiest state, when woman nursed
Her grandeur, by the care of her young heroes,
Had scarce her equal.

DAWES.

ILLYFLOWER. Cheiranthus Incanus. Class 15, TETRADYNAMIA. Order: SILIQUOSA. The gillyflower,-less graceful than the rose,-less superb than the lily,has a splendour more durable. Constant in its benefits, it offers to us, all the year, its beautiful red and pyramidal flowers,

which always diffuse an agreeable odour. The finest gillyflowers are red; they derive their name from their colour, which rivals in brilliancy the far-famed purple of Tyre. White, violet, and variegated gillyflowers have also their charms. This beautiful flower may be said to grow in our parterres, like a blooming and lively beauty, who scatters health around her; health, that chief of blessings, without which there can be neither happiness nor lasting beauty.

LASTING BEAUTY.

"Tis not alone in the flush of morn,
In the cowslip-bell or the blossom thorn,
In noon's high hour, or twilight's hush,
In the shadowy stream, or the rose's blush,
Or in aught that bountiful Nature gives,
That the delicate Spirit of Beauty lives.

Oh no! it lives and breathes, and lies,

In a home more pure than the morning skies;
In the innocent heart it loves to dwell,
When it comes with a sigh or a tear to tell
Sweet visions that flow from a fount of love,
To mingle with all that is pure above.

Sweet Spirit of Beauty! my dreams are thine,
But I lose thee not when thy day-beams shine;
Thy image is still to my constant gaze,
At midnight hour or noontide blaze;
And none but one with a heart unsold,

Can know the bliss which thy lovers hold.

DAWES.

LORY FLOWER, CRIMSON. Clianthus Puniceus. Class 17, DIADELPHIA. Order: DECANDRIA. This new and beautiful shrub is a native of New Zealand, whence seeds of it were sent to England by the Missiona ries in that part. The native name is Kowaingutu Kaha, or Parrot-bill, most probably called so from the resemblance to the bill of a bird.

GLORIOUS BEAUTY.

The Spirit of Beauty unfurls her light,
And wheels her course in a joyous flight;
I know her track through the balmy air,
By the blossoms that cluster and whiten there;
She leaves the tops of the mountains green,
And gems the valley with crystal sheen.

At morn, I know where she rested at night,
For the roses are gushing with dewy delight;
Then she mounts again, and round her flings
A shower of light from her crimson wings;
Till the spirit is drunk with the music on high,
That silently fills it with ecstasy.

At noon she hies to a cool retreat;
Where bowering elms over waters meet,

She dimples the wave where the green leaves dip,
As it smilingly curls like a maiden's lip,
When her tremulous bosom would hide, in vain,
From her lover, the hope that she loves again.

She hovers around us at twilight hour,
When her presence is felt with the deepest power,
She silvers the landscape, and crowds the stream
With shadows that flit like a fairy dream;
Then wheeling her flight through the gladden'd air,
The Spirit of Beauty is everywhere.

DAWES.

ORSE. Ulex Europeus. Class 17, DELPHIA. Order: DECANDRIA. The nical name Ulex is obscure; we call discriminately Furze, Gorse or Whin. common wild Gorse of England, in St tersburg is cherished in the choicest gr houses, and esteemed one of their

precious ornaments, as it flowers in winter. In England commons are covered in the richest profusion with its gay, b tiful, and fragrant flowers.

CHEERFULNESS IN ADVERSITY.

Fair maidens, I'll sing you a song;
I'll tell you the bonny wild flower,

Whose blossoms so yellow, and branches so long,
O'er moor and o'er rough rocky mountain are flung,
Far away from trim garden and bower.

It clings to the crag, and it clothes the wild hill;
It stands sturdily breasting the storm,

When the loud-voiced winds sing so drearily shrill,
And the snow-flakes in eddies fall silent and still,
And the shepherd can scarce wrap him warm.

'Tis the bonny bright Gorse, that gleams cheerily forth,
Like sunlight e'er lingering here,

In the verdure of Spring, and when Summer on earth
Has call'd all the fairest of blossoms to birth,

As a crown for the noon of the year.

TWAMLEY.

And her against sweet cheerfulness was placed,
Whose eyes, like twinkling stars in evening clear,
Were deck'd with smiles, that all sad humours chased,
And darted forth delights, the which her goodly graced.
SPENSER.