desirable annuals that our transatlantic friends have 

 ever bestowed upon us. 



The Coreopsis tenuifolia requires no peculiar care, 

 but may be planted in any common garden soil. Its 

 increase at the root will admit a division every other 

 year, or even more frequently. 



It is a desirable plant, from the compactness of 

 its growth and neatness of its slender foliage. It 

 opens its brilliant flowers before the gay annuals of 

 the autumn are over prominent ; a season which is 

 usually burthened with these tints of gold. Nature, 

 indeed, seems prodigal of this rich dress. The 

 opening of spring exhibits her in the garden, attired 

 in aconites, crocuses, and the gay variety of narcis- 

 suses; whilst the meadows, in a blaze of butter- 

 cups and cowslips, remind us of the descent of Ju- 

 piter in a shower of gold. 



The pleasures of hope are multiplied as we ap- 

 proach the object of anticipation ; and now, at the 

 vernal equinox, the very mention of spring is exhi- 

 larating in the extreme, when 



11 All that is sweet to smell, all that can charm 

 ( it(i ,- Or eye or ear, bursts forth on every side, 



Arid crowds upon the senses. 

 IiJtftJJti 



" By nature's swift and secret working hand, 

 The garden glows, and fills the liberal air 

 With lavish fragrance : while the promised fruit 



unperceivcd, 



Within its crimson folds. 



. 



" Ye fostering breezes blow, 

 Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! 

 And temper all, thou world reviving sun, 

 -In* * ne perfect year. 1 ' THOMSOJT. 



Hort. Kew. 2, v. 6, 133. 



