THRIFT. 81 



THRIFT oil SEA PINK. Statlce Armeria. 



Natural Order Aggregatce. Phnnbagi/ics, Juss. A 

 Genus of the Pentaiidria Peniagynia Class. 



Thrift ! Thrift ! Horatio. 



JIamlct, 



Doth a garden, trimm'd and tortured by 



Hands tliat can dext'rous wield the lopping knife, 

 Show lovelier than nature's free, wild grounds ? 



G. Burgess- 



In the days of our ancestors, when the flower par- 

 terre was divided into hearts and diamonds, and 

 the garden was made to display octagons, hexa- 

 gons, circles, and semi-circles, without number, tlie 

 Thrift formed an important part in the necessary 

 plants for this geometrical style of gardening. 



It still figures away as a bordering to cottage- 

 gardens, where we love to sec this fast-expiring 

 fashion preserved, since it brings to mind the early 

 recollections of our juvenile horticultural pursuits, 

 when to possess a few roots of Thrift, to divide 

 and subdivide our little plot of ground, was a hap- 

 piness that we refer to with pleasure in our riper 

 years. 



Even so the mind's inquiring eye 



Looks backward through the mist of years, 



Where, in its vast variety. 



The chequer'd map of life appears ; 



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