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Cheiranthus chew. NaTuRAL ORDER: Cruciferie— Mustard Family. 
ALLFLOWER is a low, semi-shrubby, perennial plant, grow- 
9 ing from one to two and a half feet in height, and comes 
ze from the south of Europe. It is a great favorite on that 
. continent among all classes. Robert Herrick, an English 
poet of the seventeenth century, has a pretty little poetical 
legend, to the effect that a young girl much in love, but re- 
strained of her liberty, desired to fly to the arms of her lover, for which 
purpose she clambered out on a high wall, to which she had tied a 
silken sash or rope. In descending, the knot untied, and she fell, 
“bruised, and bleeding, and died;” and Love, in pity, changed her to 
this plant, to be called forever the “Flower of the Wall.” It does not 
bloom until the second year from seed, and in northern climates should 
be removed to a light cellar for protection from frost in winter. Cheiri 
is the Arabic name, and Cheiranthus a formation therefrom by adding the Greek 
word azthos, a flower. 
Hidetity in (Qistortung, 
H! if there be an elysium on earth, it is this: 
When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, 
Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. 
—Moore. 
E wallflowers, shed your tints of golden dye, With fascination to the heart address’d, 
On which the morning sunbeams love to rest — So tender and beautifully shine, 
On which, when glory fills the glowing west, As if reluctant still to leave that hoary shrine. 
The parting splendors of the day’s decline, — ERENs: 
ERTAIN my resolution is to die; 
How can I live without thee, how forego 
Thy sweet converse and love, so dearly join’d? 
—Milton, 
| ape is the pink, the lily gay, There may be gaudier on the bower, 
The rose is summer’s guest; And statelier on the tree; 
Bland are thy charms when these decay, But wallflower, loved wallflower, 
Of flowers, first, last, and best! Thou art the flower for me. —afoir. Mi 
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