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trope. It is easily propagated by parting the roots in the summer 

 and planting them in a free, light and fresh earth, in a warm and 

 sheltered situation. It is also planted in pots for the purpose of 

 perfuming our winter apartments ; and thus the plant which so 

 short a time back could not by all its fragrant charms obtain a 

 corner in a cottage garden, now fills a situation in the proud 

 saloon to the admiration of all the crowd that usually attend the 

 decorated apartments of gay parties. Mrs. Ilemans wrote for a 

 broken flower of the Sweet-scented Tussilage • — 



O wear it on thy heart, my love, 



Still, still a little while, 

 Sweetness is lingering on its leaves, 



Though failed be their smile ; 

 Yet for the sake of what hath been, 



O cast it not away ; 

 'Twas born to grace a summer scene, 



A long, bright, golden day. 



A little while around thee love, 



Its fragrance yet shall cling, 

 Telling, that on thy heart hath lain 



A fair, though faded thing. 

 But not even that warm heart hath power 



To win it back from fate ; 

 Oh ! I am like the broken flower, 



Cherished too late, too late. 



"It has been beautifully observed, that the rural feeling which 

 runs through British literature continues down from the Floure 

 and Leafe of Chaucer to the present day. The pastoral writers 

 of other countries appear as if they had paid nature an occasional 

 visit, and become acquainted with her general charms ; but the 

 British poets have wooed her in her most secret haunts. A 

 spray could not tremble on the breeze, a leaf could not rustle 

 to the ground, a fragrance could not exhale from the humble 

 violet, nor a daisy unfold its crimson tints to the morning, but 

 it has been noticed by these impassioned and delicate observers, 

 and wrought into some beautiful morality. 



