

INSECT MAGICIANS. 



Lo ! at their Fairy touch at once springs forth 

 A magic growth of seeming fruits and flowers, 

 Fair to the eye, and animate within 

 By more than vegetative life. 



THE day approaches on which oak-apples, bearing their gilded 

 honours, will perpetuate the memory of those their- ancestral 

 fruits, which hung, in company with a hunted monarch, on 

 the tree of Boscobel. Whether dressed in tinsel, or adorned 

 by Nature's painting, these apples of royalty are pretty things 

 to look at ; and against the coming anniversary (the 29th of 

 May), which will bring them within the reach of all, it may 



