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QloiUiallaria majdis. Natural Order: Liliacca: — Lily Family. 



TEN wandering through the woods and sweetly-sleeping 

 «\ales, in early May, we Hnd this beautiful plant peering up 

 'its head, crowned with umbels of white, odoriferous, and 

 ■ modest flowers. It should be a frequent denizen of our 

 [^gardens, for its own modest beauty, as well as for its classic 

 ' association, having been the theme of poets of all ages. Clumps 

 loots can be obtained of almost any seedsman, and once set will 

 '(.ontinue to increase, and give you bloom of which one can never have 

 too man^. In the vicinity of Madock, England, there are many acres 

 'covered with this plant, which, when in bloom, attract many visitors, 

 ' and the spot is known in that section of the country as the Via Gellia. 



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Y sated senses seem afloat upon a waveless sea; 

 For all around me, all above, is beauteous harmony! 

 —Sal lie A. Brock. 



A BREEZY noise, which is not breeze. 



And white-clad children b_v degrees 

 Steal out in troops among the trees. 



Fair little cliildren, morning-bright. 

 With faces grave, yet soft to sight, 

 Expressive of resti-ained delight. 



A rain of dew, till, wetted so. 



The child who held the branch let go. 



And it swang backward witli a flow 



Of faster drippings. Then I knew 



The children laughed — but the laugh flev 



From its own chirrup, as might do 



Some plucked the palm boughs within i 

 And others leaped up high to catch 

 The upper boughs, and shake from eacl: 



A frightened song-bird ; and a child 

 Wlio seemed the chief, said, very mild, 

 "Hush! keep this morning undefiled." 



pAIR flower, that, !apt in lowly glade. 

 Dost hide beneath the greenwood shade. 

 Than whom the vernal gale 

 None fairer wakes, on bank, or spray, 

 Our England's lily of the May, 



Our lily of the vale! —Maui. 

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