WALL FLOWER. 



(Continued.) 



Adhering in the adverse hour, 



Like fidelity's own flower, 



That over ruins long grown grey, 



Throws its colours bright and gay. . . . Mrs. H. S. 



In adverse hours the friendship of the good 

 Shines most ; each prosperous day commands its friends. 



Euripides' 1 Hecuba. 



WEEPING WILLOW. 



Salix babylonica. 



Forsaken. Prevent his falsehood, and forsake him first. . Philips. 



Change thou the first, nor wait thy lover's flight. Prior. 



Ah ! little marvel in such clime and age, 

 That we should daily hear that love is fled, 

 And hope grown pale, and lighted feelings dead. 



Pickersgill. 



For love is oft a fatal spell, 

 That sweetly soothes but to betray 

 Let not the soft enchantment wile 



Your heart away. 

 A garland of the cypress tree, 

 Or weeping willow- wreath, may well 



Its emblem be. . . , . . . J. Malcolm. 



Some day, perhaps, thou 'It waken 

 From pleasure's dream to know 

 The grief of hearts forsaken ! . . 



Moore. 



WHEAT. 

 Triticum. 



Prosperity. 



Prosperity puts out unnumber'd thoughts 



Of import high, and light divine, to man. . . Young. 



* * * * Who feels no ills, 

 Should, therefore, fear them ; and, when fortune smiles, 

 Be doubly cautious, lest destruction come 

 Remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. 



Sophocles' 1 Philoctetes. 



When most the world applauds you, most beware ; 



'Tis often less a blessing than a snare. 



Distrust mankind with your own heart confer ; 



And dread even there to find a flatterer. . , 



Beware what earth calls happiness ; beware 

 All joys, but joys that never can expire ; 

 Who builds on less than an immortal base, 

 Fond as he seems, condemns his joy to death. 



Young. 



WOODBINE, 



The variegated leaf. 



Lonicera. 



Fraternal hve. Tneir Iove in earl y infanc y began, 



And rose as childhood ripen'd into man. . . 



Thanks to my stars, I have not rang'd about 

 The wilds of life, ere I could find a friend : 



Dryden. 



