. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. r-r^- C-y*. JiHnt\mtni. )UT golden padlocks on truth's lips, be callous as ye wHl, From soul to soul, o'er all the world leaps one electric thrill. —Lowell. /^H! there is one affection which no stain Of earth can ever darken; when two find, The softer and the manlier, that a chain Of kindred taste has fastened mind to mind: 'Tis
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. r-r^- C-y*. JiHnt\mtni. )UT golden padlocks on truth's lips, be callous as ye wHl, From soul to soul, o'er all the world leaps one electric thrill. —Lowell. /^H! there is one affection which no stain Of earth can ever darken; when two find, The softer and the manlier, that a chain Of kindred taste has fastened mind to mind: 'Tis an attraction from all sense refined; The good can only know it; 'tis not blind. As love is unto baseness; its desire Is but with hands entwin'd to lift our being higher. —Percival, FN many ways does the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal. —Coleridffe. '\7'EA! but hurrian love to me Is so near divine. That my heart clings yearningly Even to life like mine. 171 Love is sweeter far than rest — That alone I know — And the soul that loves me best Will not let me go. —Mary E. Dodge. 1 (Sliuamoclit Bulgaria. Natural Order: Convolvulacece—Convolvulus Family. jUAMOCLIT (an aboriginal Mexican name) is a vine of deli- cate and airy appearance, its leaves being small and feather- jlike, and the stem slender, growing to a;bout eight or ten feet in length. The flowers are small but beautifully bril- liant, and very abundant. One or two new varieties have 'appeared, introducing both white and pink, which, combined with the crimson or scarlet, produce a pretty effect when trained ,upon a trellis or other support. The seeds are somewhat difficult of germination, and should be soaked in warm water for a short time -before planting, otherwise they are apt to decay before sprouting. This vine passes variously under the names Ipomoea (from the Greek, and signifying, like the ips, a vine worm), Quamoclit, and Cypress Vine, and is nearly related to the morning
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