sant, and it is used in China in some relicioua 

 ceremonies, and its flowers are annually sent 

 to various parts of that kingdom, from Canton, 

 where it is cidtivatod for sale. The poets' 

 narcissus, called in France Janette des contois, 

 is a wUd flower, too, in some parts of England. 



" And some faint odours o'er the vernal dew 

 Shall tempt the wanderings of the earliest bee 

 Hither, with music sweet as poetry, 

 To woo the flower whose verge is wiry gold." 



Thus ElHott describes the polyanthus, which, 

 with its red, or claret-coloured, or lilac blooms, 

 decks every cottage garden, and looks up, too, 

 from the choicest flower border. The poly- 

 anthus much resembles the aiuicula, and is 

 simply a variety of our common wild primrose. 

 Thomson speaks of it as 



" The polyanthus of unnumber'd dyes." 



It differs from the primrose, not only in hue, 

 but in flowering in clusters, instead of having 

 each flower on a stalk. The leaves and roots 

 of this and other species of primrose are some- 

 times grated and used as snuff, or taken inter- 

 nally as a medicine. 



The bright flowers of the garden anemonies 

 have a very gay and cheerful aspect, dazzling 

 the eye by their briUiant scarlet, or pleasing 

 it no less by their softer purple or lilac tints, 

 fading into white. These flowers have been 

 brought VIS from the east ; and some of the 

 fields of the Levant are, in early spring, quite 

 radiant with their varied and beautiful tints. 

 In the soft climate of Provence some most 



