. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. -^M J^lm0ix£*. 5$ p3ir. T)1-'T dreadful is their doom Avliom doubt has driven To censure fate, and pious hope forego: Like vender blasted boughs by lightning riven. Perfection, beauty, life, they never know, But frown on all that pass, a monument of woe. M ETHINKS we stand About us; and the u loose, that it but want leap from its hinges. n rum; nature iversal frame ' another push light shed on my way, pale beam has fled, nd those I loved have gone for aye To the cold realms of the dead. —Afara'a Hall. 'T>HERE is n ^ Ev'n
. Cyclopedia of practical floriculture. Floriculture; Flower language. -^M J^lm0ix£*. 5$ p3ir. T)1-'T dreadful is their doom Avliom doubt has driven To censure fate, and pious hope forego: Like vender blasted boughs by lightning riven. Perfection, beauty, life, they never know, But frown on all that pass, a monument of woe. M ETHINKS we stand About us; and the u loose, that it but want leap from its hinges. n rum; nature iversal frame ' another push light shed on my way, pale beam has fled, nd those I loved have gone for aye To the cold realms of the dead. —Afara'a Hall. 'T>HERE is n ^ Ev'n hope' H 0\V like gall and The cup that we iormwood to the taste 0",' rling, earth is wear Life, without thee, sad and Ocean's song a Miserere! And my sun is burning low. Fainter yet life's embers glow. Tides will ebb that cannot flow. --Jame. F, W drain may pro\-e. —Lydia Jane Pu-rsou. ^HO sees laid low. The sweetest thing in his life. What bitter ruth For my heart, in sootl- Was born of thi naked, terrible truth. —Mary E. Bradley. 1 2lllU)C\LialllS puiuila. Natural Order: Rosacea:—Rose Family. HE Almond is a beautiful little shrub, sending forth its deli- cate pink, crape-like blossoms early in the spring, completely covering each branch from base to apex, while the foliage is almost unseen. The ancients had a beautiful custom of wreathing poetic fables with everj-thing, and there is scarcely a flower but what is clothed with some affecting tale of dis- appointed lovers. The Almond tree was said by them to have sprung from the dead body of Phyllis, princess of Thrace, who was watching for her betrothed husband's return. On the day appointed for his arrival, she watched and waited anxiously, and at last, hopeless and iJiV) despairing, killed herself upon the shore, and was changed into this Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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