FLORA'S INTERPRETER. /87 



.loSE, T HORNLESS. Native of Switzerland and North 



$ Amerfca. The stem is five or 



six feet high, without a prickle 

 and Lemaistre asaerta that the 

 thorns on the other species have 

 been produced by cultivation 

 hence the emblem, ingratitude. 

 Flowers crimson. 



INGRATITUDE. 



We eye the rose upon the brier, 

 Unmindful that the thorn is near. 



Burnt. 



SENTIMENT. 



No! it is not for wasted days I pine, 



Nor for my slandered youth's long banishment, 

 Not for the wand of fame, so coldly mine; 



It seemeth but a thorn in malice rent 

 From its right root, to wound my heart's content: 

 My foes I scorn and tread on but my wo 

 Is the cold hollowness of friends to know. 



A. A Lock* 



