198 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



Losing soon life's happy prime, 

 Droop and fade in little time, 

 Spring returns, but not our bloom, 

 Still 'tis winter in the tomb !" 



Cowper. 



LASTING PLEASURE. 



EVERLASTING PEA. Lathyrus LatifoUus. 

 This perennial plant, that 



" Catch the neighbouring shrub 

 With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch, 

 Else unadorned, with many a gay festoon." 



is made the emblem of lasting pleasure, since 

 its beautiful clusters of flowers are renewed 

 every year to the joy of all the admirers of 

 Flora's gifts. 



