398 FLOIIA DOMESTIC A. 



t( Lone flower, hemmed in with snows, and white as they." 



WORDSWORTH. 



e{ Already now the snow-drop dares appear, 

 The first pale blossom of the unripened year ; 

 As Flora's breath, by some transforming power, 

 Had changed an icicle into a flower." 



MRS. BARBAULD. 



" Like pendent flakes of vegetating snow, 



The early herald of the infant year, 

 Ere yet the adventurous crocus dares to blow, 

 Beneath the orchard boughs thy buds appear. 



While still the cold north-east ungenial lowers, 

 And scarce the hazle in the leafless copse 



Or sallows show their downy powdered flowers, 

 The grass is spangled with thy silver drops. 



Yet when those pallid blossoms shall give place 

 To countless tribes of richer hue, and scent, 



Summer's gay blooms, and Autumn's yellow race, 

 I shall thy pale inodorous bells lament. 



So journeying onward in life's varying track, 

 Even while warm youth its bright illusion lends, 



Fond memory often with regret looks back 

 To childhood's pleasures, and to infant friends." 



MRS. C. SMITH. 



SOUTHEKNWOOD. 



ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. 



CORYMBIFER^E. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



From Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, King of Caria ; called also 

 Old Man. French, 1'auronc des jardins; la citronelle; la garderobe, 

 from its use in preventing moths from getting into wardrobes and 

 clothes-presses. Italian, abrotano, abruotino, abruotina. 



SOUTHERNWOOD is well known as an aromatic shrub, 

 growing three or four feet high. It is a native of many 

 parts of Europe and Asia, where it produces an abundance 



