136 GARDEN FLOWERS, 



neiglibonrhood of Ghent, has been known to 

 grow to the height of ten feet. It has large 

 yellow bells, sometimes varying to a bright 

 orange. 



JULY. 



" The cottage garden, most for use designed, 

 Is not of beauty destitute. The vine 

 Mantles the little casement, and the briar 

 Drops fragrant dew among the July flowers ; 

 And pansies rayed, and freaked with mottled pinks, 

 Grow among balm, and rosemary, and rue ; 

 There honeysuckles flaunt, and roses blow. 

 Almost uncultured — some with dark green leaves 

 Contrast their flowers of pure unsullied white ; 

 Others like velvet robes of regal state. 

 Of richest crimson ; while in thorny moss 

 Enshrined and cradled, the most lovely wear 

 The hues of youthful beauty's glowing cheek." 



Charlotte Smitu. 



How beautiful, in this season, are the dew- 

 drops which at morn and evening glitter on 

 half-opened flowers, or twinkle on every blade 

 of grass, or bestrew every leaf with their pearls! 

 Truly the dew of heaven, even if it brought not 

 with it the " fatness of earth," Avould at least 

 delight the eye with its lustre. In our own 

 land we see the appropriateness of the numeroiTS 

 comparisons which are made to the dew by the 

 inspired writers ; while in the hotter regions of 

 the earth, its greater copiousness renders them 

 stiU more striking. Some lands, like Egypt, 

 would not be habitable but for the dews, and 

 the driest deserts of earth are watered by the 

 dews of heaven. " He shall be as the dcAV 



