A REMINDER TO PLANT TO HELP 



"Iris all hues, roses and jessamines, 



Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought 

 Mosaic." Milton: P. L., descrip. Paradise. 



"My spaniel, prettiest of his race, 



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Now wantoned lost in Flags and reeds, 

 Now starting into sight, 

 Pursued the swallow o'er the meads, 

 With scarce a slower flight." 



Cowper: Dog and Water Lily. 



"They entered now the chancel tall; 

 The darkened roof rose high aloof 

 On pillars lofty and light and small: 

 The key-stone, that locked each ribbed aisle, 

 Was a Fleur-de-lys, or a quatre-feuille." 



Scott: Lay of Last Minstrel. 



"And nearer to the river's trembling edge 



There grew broad Flag-flowers, purple pranked with 



white, 



And starry river-buds among the sedge, 

 And floating water lilies broad and bright." 

 Shelley: The Question. 



"Through pleasant banks the quiet stream 

 Went winding pleasantly; 



* * * * 

 The Flag-flower blossomed on its side, 



The willow tresses waived, 

 The flowing current furrow'd round 



The water-lily's floating leaf." 



Southey: Thalaba. 







"Loved Voyager! 



When wrapped in fancy, many a boyish day 

 I tracked his wanderings o'er the watery way, 

 Roamed round the Aleutian isles in waking dreams, 

 Or plucked the Fleur-de-lys by Jesso's streams." 

 Campbell: La Perouse. 



"And on many a level mead, 



And shadowing bluff that made the banks, 

 We glided winding under ranks 

 Of Iris, and the golden reed." 



Tennyson: In Memoriam. 



