130 JUNE 



latter requires the aid of a hot-bed. From one of 

 the common varieties of the Poppy, cultivated ex- 

 tensively in Turkey for the purpose, " a balm that 

 gods have made for care," and known to men by 

 the name of opium, is extracted. 



MIGNONETTE. 



the fragrant weed, 



The Frenchman's darling." 



This sweet flower, originally from Africa, (Reseda 

 odorata,) is usually an annual, but if protected from 

 frost, it will flower most of the year ; if cut down 

 in September, it will blossom again in the following 

 spring. There is a rare kind, peculiarly fragrant, 

 (a shrubby variety, and properly an inmate of the 

 green-house,) which flowers in winter, and is there- 

 fore most desirable in the drawing-room. 



ROSES. 



like the season's rose, 

 The flowret of a hundred leaves j 



Expanding, while the dew-fall flows, 

 And every leaf its 



if its balm receives." 



The general bloom of Roses takes place in this 

 month. To enter into a detail of varieties, which 

 already extend to the prodigious number of twelve 

 hundred, and are every day increasing, will hardly 

 be expected from me. We may reckon about two 

 hundred of very distinct perfections, and of every 

 shade, from pure white to the deepest crimson. 

 Some are in bloom every month of the year, varying 



