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accommodate the hearts that love her " not wisely ," but 

 she does not know of those who love her " too well." 



The seedsmen's catalogues will show that there are many 

 sorts of coreopsis in cultivation. They are all good, and 

 therefore all worth growing. They are mostly adapted by 

 their height for the second or third' row in the border, and 

 as they are rather late in flowering, they should be sown as 

 early in March as may be convenient. 



The coreopsis takes its name from the resemblance of 

 its seeds to a Jcoris, or bug; but the name might by the 

 fanciful, who care nothing for philology, be derived from 

 korus, a helmet, because that word has grown so as to cover 

 anything that glitters ; and a bunch of coreopsis may be 

 properly spoken of as a floral coruscation. And it is not 

 a long way round to derive a coruscation from a helmet, 

 because a few thousands of bright helmets moving in a 

 mass make a glitter worthy of a grand name. In North's 

 " Plutarch " (p. 395) we read of the Thracians and Mace- 

 donians, that " the glistering of their harness, so richly 

 trimmed and set forth with gold and silver, the colours of 

 their arming coats upon their curaces, after the fashion of 

 the Medes and Scythians, mingled with the bright glistering 

 steel and shining copper, gave such a show as they went and 

 removed too and fro, that made a light as clear as if all had 

 been on a very fire, a fearfull thing to look upon." Having 

 digressed so far upon the hint of a fanciful derivation, and 

 knowing it to be as nice to be hung for a sheep as a lamb, 

 we subjoin an extract from More's " Psychathanasis " 

 (II. 2, 16), in which occurs a quaint illustration of the 

 possibilities of speech : — 



" But oft when the weak tody's worn and wasted, 

 And farr shrunk in, the nimble phantasie 



