FLORA'S LEXICON. 101 



INK. Dianthus. Class 10, Decandria. 

 Order: Digynia. Cultivation has doubled 

 the petals of this favourite flower, and pro- 

 cured for it an infinite variety of colouring, 

 so that it is painted with a thousand shades, 

 from the delicate rose-colour to the perfect 

 white; and from a deep red to a brilliant 

 scarlet. In some varieties we observe opposite colours placed 

 together on the same flower; the pure white is tipped with crim- 

 son, and the rose-coloured is streaked with lively and brilliant 

 red. We also see these beautiM flowers marbled, speckled, and 

 at other times bisected in such manner that the deceived eye 

 leads us to imagine that the same cup contains a purple flower, 

 and one of palest alabaster. 



LIVELY AND PURE AFFECTION. 



Each pink sends forth its choicest sweet, 

 Aurora's warm embrace to meet. 



Robinson. 



True love's the gift which God has given 

 To man alone beneath the heaven. 



It is the secret sympathy, 



The silver cord, the silken tie, 



Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 



In body and in soul can bind. 



Scott. 



Now, Ladye — when a Cavalier 



Presents a chequer'd Pink, 

 'Tis time to ascertain, my dear, 



His rent-roll you may think ; 

 And then — provided his estate 



Don't meet your approbation, 

 It cannot, surely, be too late 



To cut — with a Carnation. 



TWAMLEY. 



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