8 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



the green-leaved. It will grow anywhere, but needs a 

 good place to display its beauty. 



When eryngos flower, autumn has come, and Nature 

 prepares to strew with leaves the pathway on which Winter 

 will steal with noiseless tread upon us. Hartley Coleridge 

 caught the idea, and thus he sang of it : — 



" The mellow year is hastening to its close ; 

 The little birds have almost sung their last, 

 Their small notes twitter in the dreary Wast — 

 That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows ; 

 The patient beauty of the scentless rose, 

 Oft with the morn's hoar crystal quaintly glassed, 

 Hangs, a pale mourner for the summer past, 

 And makes a little summer where it grows : 

 In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day 

 The dusky waters shudder as they shine, 

 The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way 

 Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks define, 

 And the gaunt woods, in ragged, scant array, 

 Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy twine." 



