Planche 288. 
AZALEA INDICA MADAME VERSCHAFFELT (ayBrina). 
Éryu. 
CHARACT. GENER. Vide nostrum : Jardin fleuriste, Te III. PI. 257. 
CHARACT. SPECIF. 
EnicaceÆ Ÿ RuODODENDREZ. 
Les Azalées de l'Inde sont, dès les premiers jours du printemps, quand 
le soleil vient sourire et dissiper les brumes mélancoliques de nos climats, 
si froids et si sombres pendant une si longue durée de jours sans lumière 
et de nuits glacées, quand 
Quand : 
Quand : 
Omnia tunc florent, et tune nova temporis ætas; 
Et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet; 
Et modo formatis aperitur frondibus arbor ; 
* Prodit et in summum seminis herba solum; 
Et tepidum Volucres concentibus aera mulcent; 
Ludit et in pratis luxuriatque pecus. 
Tune blandi soles, ignotaque prodit hirundo, 
Et luteum celsa sub trabe figit opus. 
Tunc patitur cultus ager et renovatur aratro. : 
Ovin. 
Tunc varios audet flores emittere Tellus! 
Tune volucrum pecudumque genus per pabula læta 
In venerem partumque ruit, totumque canora 
Voce nemus loquitur, frondemque virescit in omnem. 
Mani. 
From the moist Meadow to the wither’d hill, 
Led by the breeze, the vivid verdure runs, 
And swells and deepens to the cherish’d eye. 
The hawthorn whitens, and the juicy groves 
Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, 
Till the whole leafy forest stands display’d, 
In full luxuriance to the sighing gales; 
Where the deer rustle through the twining brake, 
And the birds sing conceald. At once array’d 
In all the colours of the flushing year, 
By Nature’s swift and secret working hand, 
The garden flows, and fills the liberal air 
With lavish fragrance; while the promised fruit 
Lies yet a little embryo, unperceived, 
Within its crimson folds, , . . . . 
Tuomps. The Seas. 
