9° 



PROSERPINA. 



close over it, the little thing is content to remain a 

 child, and finds its nursery large enough. The green 

 leaves unclose their points, — the little yellow ones 



Fig. 7. 



peep out, like ducklings. They find the light deli- 

 cious, and open wide to it ; and grow, and grow, 

 and throw themselves wider at last into their perfect 

 rose. But they never leave their old nursery for all 

 that ; it and they live on together ; and the nursery 

 seems a part of the flower. 



21. Which is so, indeed, in all the loveliest 

 flowers ; and, in usual botanical parlance, a 

 flower is said to consist of its calyx, (or hiding 

 part — Calypso having rule over it,) and corolla, 

 or garland part, Proserpina having rule over 

 it. But it is better to think of them always as 



