LYCHNIS. !(}§ 



and Cuckoo Flower, in connnon with several other 

 plants that blossom about the time this welcome 

 and merry messenger of Spring begins its monoto- 

 nous song, when 



The schoolboy wanderini^ in the wood 



To pull the flowers so gay, 

 Starts — its curious voice to hear. 



And imitates its lay. 



The Lychnis Dioica, Bachelor's Buttons, is also 

 a native plant, whose petals have been multipHed 

 by the ingenuity of the florists to embellish the 

 parterre. 



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