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HEART'S-EASE, OR PANSY. Viola tricolor. 



Plate 3, fiy. 12. 



Leaves oblong. Stem branched, square. Stipules very large. 

 The flowers of the Heart's-ease are annual, small, sometimes 

 wholly yellow, but more frequently the upper petals are purple, 

 and the lower striped with a dark color. The seed vessel is 

 full of numerous seeds, and of a curious form, like a star of 

 three rays. The leaves, which are oblong and deeply crenate, 

 are attended at their base by two large lyrate stipules, and the 

 flowers by two very minute bracts. The plant goes by various 

 names; some of them are somewhat singular. " Three Faces 

 under a Hood ;" " Love and Idle ;" and " A Kiss behind the 

 Garden Gate," are some of them. That species which has given 

 rise to all the beautiful and splendid varieties of the garden is 

 the Viola grandiflora, a large flowered kind. The Heart's-ease 

 is a general favorite with the poets of all nations, and signifies 

 " Think of me." This is the French " Forget-me-not ; and 

 was worn by Buonaparte, and those who secretly favored him, 

 when he returned from the island of Elba in the spring of the 



year 1815. 



" In youth I planted a sweet flower, 

 Beside my own dear infant bower. 

 Its first sweet buddings all were noted, 

 For on my little gem I doated. 

 "Twas not a gay or gaudy blossom, 

 Which gladdened thus my infant bosom, 

 No flaunting flower, the proud to please, 

 'Twas but the pretty flower, Heart's-ease. 

 I loved it on through youth to age, 

 It did my every thought engage. 

 Each day to tend my charge I flew, 

 And with attention it so grew, 

 So well repaid my anxious care, 

 I had enough, and had to spare. 

 Sweet reader, may I ask if you, 

 Would have a stock of Heart's-ease too, 

 List to the moral of the sage. 

 Plant it in youth, 'twill last to age." 



O. S. Hairy Violet, a plant of the woods; Marsh Violet, found in the 

 bogs ; Cream colored Violet and Yellow Mountain Violet, both fond of the 

 pure air of the hills. 



IVY. HEDERA. 

 COMMON IVY. Hedera helix. 



PlateS, fig. 13. 

 The flowers of the Ivy are green ; the petals bent back, and 



