Flowers and Gardens 



We would often call a halt to look a 

 little longer ; but no, that cannot be. 

 The plant remains in abundance, but its 

 special beauty is often as fleeting as the 

 sunset, and is perhaps visible only in 

 the choicest specimens. The " darling 

 blue" of the little Speedwell, as Tennyson 

 calls it, will be often found thus transitory. 

 Specimen after specimen may we examine, 

 and find it only grey, and when we have 

 at last discovered the genuine tint, the 

 corolla drops almost immediately from the 

 gathered stalk, and the colour will never 

 reappear in the succeeding flowers. 



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