The sun is dress'd in beaming smiles, 

 To give thy beauties to the day: 



Young zephyrs wait with gentlest gales, 

 To fan thy bosom as they play. 



Casimir. 



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From the plaintive air it assumes in its wild state, arose to the imagination of the poet the 

 fancy of a Youth converted into this flower. 



I die, I die, young Hyacinthus said, b 



Sunk on the earth, and droop'd his lovely head. 



Quick to his aid distress'd Apollo flew, 



And round the hero's neck his arms he threw. 



But whilst he held him to his throbbing breast, 



And all the anguish of his soul exprest. 



His polish'd limbs by strange enchantment's pow'r 



Shoot into buds, and blossom into flow'r; 



His auburn locks in verdant foliage flow, 



And wreaths of azure florets shade his brow. 



Ovid. 



Although the Hyacinth cannot boast of a vestment of crimson, and variety of stripes yet is 

 this flower, from its early appearance, and the eftea that cultivation produces on it made o e 

 of the most pleasing gifts proceeding from the Deity. Botanists have usua ly affected to desprse 

 double flowers, forgetful that the benevolence of the Almighty is best delayed m such produe- 

 tions, and have branded them by the appellation of Meters. They are, however, useful, not 

 only as agreeable objects, but scientifically, proving most satisfactorily the doctrme of the sexes 

 of plants! for the Hyacinth in its natural state has six Stamina and one P.stdlum, and » pro- 

 ductive • the Petals are likewise six; but in a cultivated state the flowers cease to be pendu- 

 lous and the Petals are so considerably multiplied, as to constitute the whole of the flower, and 

 there is neither Stamina nor Pistillnm, and consequently no propagation by seeds, but merely 

 by offsets from the bulbs. The Double White Hyacinth has been denominated La Heroine; 

 that which is double and all of a light blue, Globe Terrestre. The D.ana Va N Epheson 

 is a double White Hyacinth, with small red spots; and Velour Pubpbe » the dark double 

 Blue Hyacinth with green at the edges of the petals; and the Single dark Blue ,s named Don 

 Gratuit. 



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