THRIFT. 91 



THRIFT OR SEA PINK. Statice Armeria. 



Natural Order Aggregat^e. Plumbagines, Juss : a 

 Genus of the Pentandna Peiitagynia Class. 



" Thrift! Thrift! Horatio!" 



Handet. 



" Doth a garden trimm'd and tortured by- 



Hands that can dext'rous wield the lopping- knife, 



?" 

 G. Burgess. 



Show lov'lier than nature s free wild g-rounds ?' 



In the days of our ancestors, when the flower 

 parterre was divided into hearts and diamonds, 

 and the garden was made to display octagons, 

 hexagons, circles, and semi-circles without num- 

 ber, the Thrift formed an important part in the 

 necessary plants for this geometrical style of gar- 

 dening. 



It still figures away as a bordering to cottage- 

 gardens, where we love to see 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 



