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you wish to determine whether your Violets are of 

 the sweet sort or not, examine the calyx leaves : 

 if they taper to a sharp point, the plant is a Dog- 

 Violet ;* if the ends of the calyx leaves are round- 

 ed off and blunt, you must take a further look at 

 the root, for there are two kinds whose calyx 

 leaves are thus constructed. Of these, the Sweet 

 Violet is one, and is easily distinguished from the 

 other -f- by its being furnished with long shoots, 

 which creep along the ground and throw out a 

 few leaves and roots here and there. This cha- 

 racter will also help you to distinguish the right 

 sort, if you should wish to transplant some into 

 your garden at the fall of the year. But, plant 

 them in gardens, or greenhouses, or where you 

 will, though you may thus make them blow ear- 

 lier, or bear double flowers, you will rarely be 

 able to produce a flower which can vie with a 

 genuine hedge-row Violet, either in vigour, beauty, 

 or odour. 



" Oh ! where can Nature, through her wide domains, 

 Boast other odours half so sweet as thine ? 

 Though the striped tulip, and the blushing rose, 

 The polyanthus broad with golden eye, 

 The full carnation, and the lily tall, 

 Display their beauties in the gay parterre, 

 In costly gardens, where th' unlicens'd feet 

 Of rustics tread not ; yet that lavish hand 

 Which scatters violets under every thorn, 

 Forbids that sweets like these should be confined 

 Within the limits of the rich man's wall ? " 



A very singular plant, which is found in great 

 abundance in most parts of the country, is the 

 Arum, J commonly called " Cuckoo-pint," or " Lords 



* Viola canina. t Viola hirta. J Arum maculatum. 



