Chrysanthemum, 
Chrysanthemum carinatum. Narurar Orver: Composite — Aster Family. 
““EELSHAPED goldflower is the significance of the scientific 
name of this plant—carinatum, from the Latin carzna, a keel; 
and Chrysanthemum, from two Greek words, chrysos, golden, 
and anthemon, a flower. It is not naturalized in this country, 
; though it has now been cultivated here for a number of years. 
It is nearly a century since they were introduced into Great 
#> Britain (in 1789). They are indigenous to Northern Africa, China, 
Japan, and other Oriental countries. The primitive color was yellow, 
hence the Greeks called it Chrysanthemum; but now the colors are 
various, being white, crimson, maroon, and yellow of several shades. 
They blossom very late “in the fall, and, if transferred to the house, 
will bloom until Christmas, requiring only to be kept from positive 
f freezing. 
Stighted Atfections. 
OUL, wilt thou love, where to love is losing? 
Long wilt thou wander in ways that err; 
Dally with hopes, that thy barren choosing 
Finds fleeting as steps of a wayfarer. 
Wilt thou not turn and say to her spirit, 
Lo! I that love thee will love no more? 
This is a hard thing that we inherit; 
To love and to weep, lo! this is sore. —Barton Grey. 
AN brightener of the fading year, Thou comest when the rose is dead, 
Chrysanthemum ; Chrysanthemum — 
Rough teller of the winter near, When pink and lily both have fled, 
Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum : 
Gray, low-hung skies and woodlands sere, When hollyhocks droop low the head, 
Wet, leaf-strewn ways with thee appear; And dahlias litter path and bed, 
Yet well I love to see thee here, Thou bloomest bright in all their stead, 
Chrysanthemum! Chrysanthemum, 
Yes, well I love to see thee here, And back recall’st their beauty fled. 
Chrysanthemum! —W. C. Bennett. 
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