to have dressed them as a model for the har- 

 monizing of colours, for when we find the stand- 

 ards of a rich claret-colour that bears a velvet-like 

 appearance, the wings are generally of bluish- 

 lilac, and the keel of faint rose tinted with azure, 

 which slightly opens to show the yellow anthers. 

 In other varieties we find the standards or pelisse 

 of the flower of a full rose-colour, which flies open 

 to shew the soft blue or flesh-coloured second 

 garment, which opening discloses the clear white 

 of the keel or inner tunic. Others burst in a 

 full robe of pure white, like a virgin on her bridal 

 morning, who heightens the splendour of her attend- 

 ants by the attractive simplicity of her costume. 



If our attention is attracted by the beautiful 

 manner in which Flora has decorated this favour- 

 ite child, how much must our admiration be ex- 

 cited by the wise ordinances of nature, in the 

 singular provisions she has made to enable this 

 feeble plant to rear its slender stem, so as to pro- 

 pagate its species with as much security and re- 

 gularity as that of the sturdy oak of the valley 

 or the tall pine of the mountain. So admirably 

 are they all adapted to their various stations in 

 the vegetable economy, that it would be presump- 

 tion to ask which is formed with superior wis 

 dom. 



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