62 Wisconsin State Hoeticttltueal Society, 



The secret their eyes have revealed too well; 



But flowers he plants on her snowy breast, 



And their eloquent leaves have his love confessed. 



'Tis a bridal morn, and loudly swells 



A merry peal from the old church bells; 



The white robed bride is smiling now, 



'Neath a budding wreath from the orange bough; 



And bright-eyed maidens before her strew 



Beautiful flowers of every hue. 



There's a voice of sorrow, for time hath fled, 

 A wife and a mother lies cold and dead ; 

 They've laid her to sleep in her endless rest, 

 With a young babe clasped to her marble breast, 

 Decking the bud and the blossom in death. 



In the green church.yard is a lonety spot, 

 f Where the joyous sunshine enters not; 



Deep in the gloom of the cypress shade, 

 There is her home in the cold earth made ; 

 And over her still the sweet flowrets bloom — 

 They were near her in life and forsake not her tomb. 



Beautiful flowers, ye seem to be 

 Linked in the fond ties of memory ; 

 Companions ye were to our childhood's day, 

 Companions ye are to our lifeless clay; 

 And barren and drear were this world of ours, 

 Lacking the smile of the beautiful flowers." 



Mr. Plumb was much pleased to hear this pleasant subject rep- 

 sented in such an appropriate manner. He hoped that we should 

 ever have the cheering and refining influence of flowers in our 

 homes. They do much to develop the love of the beautiful, and 

 good taste and order, in our younger days, which follow us in after 

 years. The order and arrangement of Senator Arnold's bureau in 

 boyhood days had great influence in forming habits of order and 

 fitting him for the better discharge of the duties of life. So by 

 instilling a love, a taste for flowers in children, we can do much to 

 cheer and help them on in life. 



