Why knows the Mghti7igale to sing? 



Why flows the Vines nectareous juice ? 

 Why shines with paint the Linnefs wing? 



For sustenance alone? for use? 

 For preservation ? Every sphere 

 Shall bid fair Pleasure's rightful claim appear. 

 And sure there seem of human kind 



Some born to shun the solemn strife ; 

 Some for amusive tasks design'd, 

 To sooth the certain ills of life; 

 Grace its lo7ie vales with many a budding rose, 



Newfoimts of hliss disclose, 

 Call forth refreshi7ig shades, and decorate repose. 



Shenstone. 



Florists distinguish Carnations into four divisions : 



1. Flakes, of two colours only, and their stripes large, going quite through the petals 



2. Painted Ladies, having the petals of a red. or purple, on the upper part only, and the 



under side of a clear white. 



3. Bizarrcs, flowers striped or variegated with three or four different shades of colour 



4. Piquettes, a white or yellow ground, edges toothed and spotted, or, to use the flonst s ex- 



pression, pounced, with scarlet, red, or purple. 

 In our Plate of these Carnations * there are two purple FMes; the upper .s Palmek s 

 Duchess of Dokset, and the lowest one Palmek's Defiance -.--there are two scarlet 

 Bizarres^ that on the right is Caustin's British Monauch, and the center one, a paler red 

 is MiDWiNTEB's Duchess of Wurtemberg -.--likewise there are i^.o Piquettes; the red 

 Piquette is Davey's Defiance, and the purple one the Princess of Wales. 



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