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®|iimE gi^stjer-^mgU* 



(Eallistcpl)US ^UljilU'llsis. Xatukal Okder: Coiiipositic — Aster Family. 



ESCRIPTION of this flower would be unnecessary, were it 

 not the progenitor of all our handsome double, quilled, bou- 

 quet, pyramid and the many other varieties of asters that 

 'have originated under careful and discriminating cultivation, 

 blossom originally presented a yellow disk or center, sur- 

 rounded by a single row of petals, of a purple color : now we have 

 nearh- all colors and shades, except j-ellow. Such is the wonderful 

 power of human thought, skill, patience and perseverance, when applied 

 to flowers; who can doubt its equal power when enlisted in the eleva- 

 tion of mankind or in the improvement of the individual. 



TOVE'S heralds should be thoughts, 



■'-' Which ten times faster gHde than sunbeams, 



Driving back the shadows over lowering hills. 



-Shake 





p OSE leaves, when the rose is dead, 

 ^^ Are heaped for the beloved's bed; 



T' 



And so thy thoughts 

 Love itself shall shin 



I'hen thou art gone, 

 !r on. -Shelly. 



'HOUGHTS of my soul, how swift ye g. 

 Swift as the eagle's glance of fire. 

 Or arrows from the archer's bow. 



To the far aim of your desire 1 —Whiitk-} 



'T^HE car without horses, the car without wings. 



Roars onward and flies 



On its pale iron edge, 

 'Neath the heat of a thought sitting still in our eyes. 



'pHOUGHTS flit and flutter through the mind, 



A.s o'er the waves the shifting wind; 

 Trackless and traceless is their flight, 

 As falling stars of yesternight, 

 Or the old tidemarks on the shore, 

 Which other tides hax-e rippled o'er. —Bo-.mm;. 



jVIANYa, 

 ^'A In my 



the thoughts that come to me 

 my lonely musing; 

 And they drift so strange and swit't. 



There 's no time for choosing 

 Which to follow, for to leave 



Any, seems a losing. _c. p. Crauch. 





