STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
seed of the wild vines of that land of the east into which 
Adam and Eve were banished? 
Travellers in Palestine still speak of the luxuriant grape- 
vines flinging their clusters of fruit and sweet-scented 
blossoms over the terraced steps of rocky ravines, filling 
the air with perfume; but the vines are all wild now and 
uncultivated. They want the careful hand of the vine- 
dresser and husbandman to train them—type of the wasted 
inheritance of the ancient people and of a degenerated 
priesthood. 
Has the Christian Church no careless vine-dressers; are 
there no vines bringing forth wild grapes; no briars and 
thorns that come up to choke the Lord’s vineyard, till it 
becomes an unfruitful wilderness? 
BLACK HAWTHORN—PEAR THORN—Crategus tomentosa 
(L.). 
Canada has many species of Hawthorn, but not the frag- 
rant flowering May of the English hedgerows, associated in 
the minds of Old Country people with the pleasant spring 
days and bowery lanes of their childhood, when, as old 
Herrick tells us, “ Maids went maying.” But even now in 
Merrie England the May-queen’s reign is over, in spite of 
poets’ songs. 
LAMENT FOR THE MAY-QUEEN. 
No maiden now with glowing brow 
Shall rise with early dawn, 
And bind her hair with chaplets rare 
Torn from the blossomed thorn. 
No lark shall spring on dewy wing 
Thy matin hymn to pour, 
No cuckoo’s voice shall shout ‘ Rejoice!’ 
For thou art Queen no more. 
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