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CONTENTS, 



Page 

 The Lily, PerciwaZ 95 



The L;ly of the Valley, and the 



Ai ill-. Anon 96 



Song of r/.e Lily, Anon 97 



The Water-Lily, Mrs. Hemans ... 98 



The Tulip 100 



The Tulip, Kleist 101 



Song of the Tulip, Holland 101 



The Rose 103 



Extract from " Bride of Abydos," 



Byron 106 



Invocation to a Rose, Smith 107 



The same. Anon 107 



The same, Bowring 107 



On an Early Rose, Anon 108 



The Moss-Rose, From the German 109 



The Wild-Rose, Willhouse 109 



The Fading Rose, C. J. Fox 110 



The Everlasting Rose, Anster ... Ill 



Sharon's Rose, Anon 112 



Illustration (Maurandria Barclaya- 



na), E. C. Embury 



The Wall-Flower 114 



To the Wall-Flower, Anon 1 15 



The Wall-Flower, Delta 115 



The same, Townsend 118 



The Hyacinth, or Harebell ... 120 



The Harebell, Mrs. Robinson 120 



The same, Anon 121 



The Harebell and the Foxglove, 



Anon 121 



The Cereus 124 



The Night-blowing Cereus, Anon. 124 

 To the Night-blowing Cereus, H. 



L Johns 125 



The Celandine 127 



To the Small Celandine, Anon. . . 127 



The Orchis 130 



The Bee-Orchis, R. Snow 130 



The Anemone 134 



To the Wood-Anemone .... .--*-. . 134 

 Illustration (Passion Flower), Lucy 



Hooper 



The Passion Flower 136 



The Passion Flower, Barton 136 



The same, Cartwright , 137 



The Hawthorn 138 



The Hawthorn, .4non 138 



The same, ilnon 139 



Pkg* 

 The Gentian 14C 



The Gentianella, Montgomery ... 141 



The same, Mrs. Sigourney 141 



Forget-me-not, or Myosotis Pa- 



LUSTRIS 143 



Forget-me-not, Barton 143 



Song of the Forget-me-not, Anon. 144 



Mosses 145 



The Moss, Anon 146 



Sunflower, Marigold, and He- 

 liotrope 147 



Sunflower 149 



The Heliotrope, ^non 149 



The Marigold, Wither 150 



The Amaranth 152 



Poetical Amaranth, Anon 153 



To the Wild Amaranth, Anon. ... 153 



The Aloe 155 



The White Jasmine 156 



The Virgin's Bower 156 



The Lavender 157 



The Pimpernel 158 



The Sensitive Plant 158 



The Honeysuckle, or Woodbine .... 159 



Orange Flowers 160 



Butter-Cups 160 



The Poppy 161 



The Stinging Nettle 161 



The Rhododendron 162 



The Cypress-Tree 163 



The Blue-Bottle Centaury 163 



The Sweet Pea 164 



Iliustration (Narcissus — Clinging* 



Vine), Lucy Hooper 



The Mezereon 165 



The Narcissus 165 



The Convolvulus Major 166 



The Rosemary 167 



The Ivy 167 



The Yellow Iris 168 



The Columbine 169 



The Almond 169 



Broom 170 



The Common Thistle 171 



The Aspen-Tree 171 



The Stock, or Gillyflower 172 



The Myrtle 1T3 



The Crown Imperial 174 



The Iris Ift 



