ELOWEBS OF SEPTEMBER. 



(CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. XXII. 



REFLECTIONS AWAKENED BY A GLANCE AT THE WILDER 

 TRACTS OF FLORA'S DOMINION SCENE CHANGED, AND 

 "AT HOME" IN THE GARDEN DAHLIAS, HOLLY-HOCKS, 

 AND SUNFLOWERS, WITH THEIR ASSOCIATIONS HYDRAN- 

 GIA, CHINESE ASTER, &C. SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS FROM 

 GARDENING PLEASURES ADONIS AUTUMNALIS SMELL- 

 ING A GERANIUM POETICAL IDEAS EMANATING FROM 

 FLOWERS WITHERED FLOWERS AND LOST JOYS. 



" Every Month has its Flower, 

 Every Flower hath its hour." 



OLD PROVERB. 



HATING given tlie misty mountains the slip, and left 

 the glens and ravines to their clouds and waters, we 

 shall now look out upon the softer features of the 

 Elower Garden, where I perceive many of Flora's 

 beauties, that might have received earlier attention, 

 had we not amidst the ruder yet more exciting features 

 of nature's wild haunts, been offering up our devotions 

 in scenes where the foot of man hath but rarely trod, 

 yet where shrouded in desolation and magnificence, 

 the finger of God hath clothed the rugged ravine with 

 verdure, and seated floral beauties in spots where 

 silence and solitude brood moodily in their high fast- 



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