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for its being more rarely cultivated at the pre- 

 sent time than it appears to have been in the 

 days of Queen Elizabeth, when Gerard wrote his 

 Herbal. 



We have two other species of Lcucojum, viz., 

 JEstivum, Summer Snowflake ; and the An turn nale, 

 Autumnal Snowflake. The latter is a native of 

 Portugal, and flowers in the month of September. 

 The former is an indigenous plant, that blossoms 

 in May, but as it loves a moister soil than gardens 

 in general afford, it is but seldom cultivated. It 

 has been found wild in the Isle of Dogs, opposite 

 Greenwich; and Mr. Curtis also observed it o TO w- 

 ing naturally, close by the Thames, on the south 

 side between Woolwich and Greenwich. Mr. 

 Gough found it in a small island in the river, 

 about three miles south of Kendal, on the dam of 

 the gunpowder mill. It grows in similar situa- 

 tions in Austria, Hungary, Tuscany, Carniola, and 

 Silesia. 



We shall conclude our history of the Snowdrop 

 with the following contemplative lines : — 



Haste, lovely stranger, venture forth, 



Fear not the wintry blast ; 

 The keen and unrelenting North, 



With all his train, is past. 



Child of the spring, sweet Snowdrop, haste 



Thy bosom to unfold ; 

 Ah ! dread the vernal hours to waste, 



For soon returns the cold. 



