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SEPTEMBER. 



" WhJther be the violets gone, 



Those that hloomed oV late so gay, 

 And in fragrant garlands strown, 

 Decked the blooming flower-queen's way i 

 Youth, alas, the spring must fly, 

 Yonder violets withered lie. 



■Whither are the roses fled, 



We so gaily singing bound, 

 WHien the brow of sliepherd maid. 

 And the herdsman's hat was crowned ? 

 Maiden, summer days must fly, 

 Yonder roses withered lie." 



Jacobi. 



Almost all the flowers of the last month bloom 

 also during September, yet now, as their num- 

 ber will seem gradually to diminish, we are 

 pleased to mark the bright fohage of the ever- 

 greens, and to look on the pale greenish flowers 

 which hang among the branches of the arbutus 

 or strawberry tree. The common arbutus is 

 now generally enumerated among British plants, 

 biit several others, as Avell as this species, are 

 cultivated in this country. The oriental arbu- 

 tus (^Ai'buttis andrachne) is scarcely less general 

 than the common kind, though requiring more 

 care. It blooms some months earlier than 

 that, and may be distinguished by the greater 

 beauty of its foliage and flowers, its broader 

 leaves, which are also less notched at the edges, 

 and by its red bark which peels off", and leaves 

 much of the trunk smooth and brown. 



This arbutus is a native of the Levant. In 

 the isle of Cyprus it attains an enormous size. 



