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grown plants. Cuttings, also, may be taken off in the 

 spring, and treated like other cuttings. 



PANSY, OR HEART'S EASE. 



(VIOLA TRICOLOR.) 



" Pansies, sweet tenants of the shade, 

 In purple's richest pride arrayed, 



Your errand here fulfil : 

 Go ! bid the artist's simple strain 

 Your lustre imitate in vain, 



And match your Maker's skill." 



It. would be impossible to trace this beautiful flower to 

 its origin, from its having passed under different names. 

 The Greeks called it Phlox, a name how assigned to a 

 rery different flower. Some trace its name and origin to 

 the days of fable, and identify it with lo, daughter of 

 Midas, who, as the early poets say, was changed by Diana 

 to a violet, to hide her from Apollo, who was enamored of 

 this earth born beauty. It is a lovely allegory, for this 

 modest flower, after the lapse of so many centuries, still 

 retains the bashful timidity of the nymph, partially con- 

 cealing itself in its own foliage, and that of the neighbor- 

 ing shrubs and plants, and shrinking from the gaze of the 

 sun in his vernal search for his long lost lo, the object of 

 his love. In modern times it has gone by the more prosaic 

 name of "Love in Idleness," "Johny Jump-up," "Heart's 

 Ease," " Ladies' Delight.' 1 &c., but as we are adopting 



