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ImpattCnS balsainiua. Natukai. Order: Jia/saminacccr — yezvel-WeedFami/Y. 



\ ADY-SLIPPER, or the ordinary Balsam, is familiar to all as 

 a pioduct of our gardens. It is a natix-e of the East Indies, 

 (■^ and is worthy of notice. Within the last few x'ears the 

 double varieties have been grown as pot-plants, in which 

 ^ , -"^ ^"^ '^^^^ ''^'^y ''t^qu'i'f very rich soil, and to have the tip of 

 ' ' ' ' -"' the main branch pinched ofl', when it will throw out side 

 blanches and form larger plants. They appear in every variety of 

 coloi, and the fancy ones are streaked or mottled, many of them 

 being nearty as double as the blossoms of that beautiful shrub the 

 camelia japonica. The seed-pods burst when slightly pressed, from 

 which circumstance they receive their Latin name, Inipaiiens, noli me 

 tangxre (^impatient, touch me not). 



TIIHAT! canst thou not forbear me half an hour? 

 Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself 

 And bid the merry belli? ring to thine ear 

 That thou art crown'd— not that I am dead. 



A WRETCHED soul, bruised with adversity, 

 -''■ We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; 

 But were we burdened with like weight of pain, And if your reasons mitigate her fury 

 As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. My soul will be as calm. _.s- 



— S/iakes/<ear,-. 



pO, then, my song, speed swiftly to her; 



^ Sing to her, plead with her late and long; 



Hover around her, and gently woo her; 



Perhaps she will hear thee some day, O Song! 



pREACH patience to the sea, when jarring winds 

 Throw up her swelling billows to the sky! 



Out of the depths of the soul comes sorrow; 



But, out of the depths of these days that cease. 

 May come, like liglit 'roimd the feet of the morrow 



Love's soft glory, our love's calm peace. 



/^H! how impatience gains upon the soul, 



When the long-promised hour of joy dr 

 How slow the tardv moments seem to roll! 



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