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phosed. It seems that Apollo and his friend, as I 

 am informed, were playing a game of quoits, or 

 some such thing, when that which was flung by the 

 powerful arm of his godship, hit poor Hyacinth a 

 iatal blow on the scull, which it baffled the god's skill 

 to remedy ; he could not heal the wound, nor with 

 all his divinity recall him to life, but he had the 

 power, it seems, of turning him into a mighty pretty 

 Jlower ; and surely that must have been a great 

 gratification to the parties to the dead man as well 

 as to his surviving godship ; but, unluckily, the 

 honor conferred, is disputed by another flower, called 

 the Martegan Lily ; now if the Lily was entitled to 

 that high distinction, how has it contrived to lose 

 the name it acquired by the metamorphosis ? That 

 is a knotty point, which my classical friend could 

 not solve for me, no more than he could, account for 

 the heathen name of Hyacinth becoming a Christian* 

 name in the county of Galway. 



CROCUS. 



" Fair handed Spring unbosoms ev'ry grace, 

 Throws out the Snowdrop and the Crocus first" 



The Crocus is a valuable ornament of the flower 

 garden in the early spring, when its rich and glow- 

 ing blossoms make a display either in entire beds, 

 in groups, or edgings. The Yellow Crocus is the 

 most general ; there are many varieties, however, 

 blue and white, purple and striped, all easily culti- 

 vated, and all worthy of being cultivated. The 



* As in the respectable families of Daly, Fallen, &c. &c. 



