87 



Th' Azores send 



Their jessamine ; her jessamine, remote 

 Caffraria: foreigners from many lands, 

 They form one social shade, as if convened 

 By magic summons of ih' Orphean lyre. 

 Yet just arrangement, rarely brought to pass 

 But by a master's hand, disposing well 

 The gay diversities of leaf and flower, 

 Must lend its aid t' illustrate all their charms, 

 And dress the regular, yet various scene. 

 Plant behind plant aspiring, in the van 

 The dwarfish ; in the rear retired, but still 

 Sublime above the rest, the statelier stand." 



COWPER. 



What is here said on the subject of arrangement is of 

 course addressed to those who are unacquainted with botany ; 

 those who study that deh'ghtful science will, most probably 

 prefer a botanical arrangement, observing however to place 

 the smaller plants of each division next the spectator, and 

 thus proceeding gradually to the tallest and most distant ; so 

 that the several divisions will form strips irregular in their 

 width. 



A friend has obliged me, says a celebrated writer, with 

 the following lines, paraphrased from the Greek of Meleager. 

 '' This dehcious httle Greek poem," says he, "is one of 

 those which I always seem to scent the very odor of, as if I 

 held a bunch of flowers to my face. 



" A flowery crown will I compose — 

 I'll weave the crocus, weave the rose ; 

 I'll weave narcissus, newly wet, 

 The hyacinth, and violet ; 

 And myrtle shall supply me green, 

 And lilies laugh in light between : 

 That the rich tendrils of my beauty's hair 

 May burst into their crowning flowers, and light the painted air.'' 



Reported per order, by 



S. Walker, 

 Chairman of Committee of Arrangements, 



and of Committee of Floivers. 



