WILD FLOWEES OF DECEMBEE. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. XXIX. 



LAST LOOK-OUT UPON THE ASPECT OF VEGETATION 

 APPEARANCE AND ECONOMY OF THE JUNGERMANNI^E 

 A DECEMBER MORNING IVIED TREES, SHRUBS, AND 

 BERRIES SIMILIES APPERTAINING TO LINGERING FLOW- 

 ERS EVERGREENS OF THE SEASON REFLECTIONS CON- 

 NECTED WITH BOTANICAL INVESTIGATION WINTER 

 PICTURE OF FALLING SNOW UPON THE BARE BOUGHS 

 OF DECEMBER, SHROUDING ALL VEGETATION CONCLU- 

 SION. 



u Fled is the blasted verdure of the fields ; 

 And, shrunk into their beds, the flowery race 

 Their sunny robes resign." THOMSON. 



" Bring the last December rose 

 Frosted o'er with wintry snows, 

 Let the fading petals fall, 

 O'er the year's funereal pall. 



From the wood some oak-leaves bring, 

 That were green in early spring ; 

 Scatter them about the bier 

 Of the now departing year." 



Christmas, a Masque. 



THE " last December rose," alluded to in the above 

 lines, must of course be a Chinese, or monthly one, 

 some of which continue blooming, trained against 



