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Coreopsis tinctoria. Natura Orver: Composite —Aster Family. 
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5 i : ~ opsis, appearance. The flowers are about an inch or an 
Noles le ? inch and a half in diameter, and in shape like a diminutive 
— a > | fs “5 sunflower, the rays or petals being yellow, crimson, maroon 
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circle at the base. They bloom profusely during the whole sum- 
mer. The plants are delicate in growth and are about two feet 
high. They are natives of all the Southern States. 
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i h- Happy at alt Gimes. 
Ce you chain the blithe waves dancing wild in their glee? 
Could you check the glad mockbird his carol repeating, 
Hold the laughing leaves still that are fluttering free, 
Or the sungleams that o’er the green meadows are fleeting? 
And why is my voice attuned like a lute 
To the music that all things around me are feeling, 
If its voice in that concert alone must be mute, 
If I shut out the doctrine of nature’s revealing? 
—Elizabeth F. Ellet, 
OWS of liquid eyes in laughter, H! why, delight to wrap the soul 
How they glimmer, how they quiver! In pall of fancied sadness? 
Sparkling one another after, ’Twere best be merry while we live, 
Like bright ripples on a river. And paint our cheeks with gladness; 
Tipsy band of rubious faces, What if hope tells a “flattering tale,” 
Flushed with Joy’s. ethereal spirit, And mocks us by deceiving, 
Make your mocks and sly grimaces *Tis better far to be content,— 
At Love’s self, and do not fear it. There’s nothing made by grieving. 
—George Darley. —L. Labree. 
aed her against sweet cheerfulness was laced, 
Whose eyes like twinkling stars in evening clear 
Were deck’t with smyles, that all sad humors chased, 
And darted forth delights, the which her goodly graced. —spenser. 
