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produce a pretty red l3erry, the seed in which will readily ger- 

 minate. This chaste and beautiful flower could not fail to attract 

 the notice of our poets — 



' Sweet flower of the valley, ^\ath blossoms like snow 

 Sweet Lily ! thy loveliness is urLique, I trow.' 



j3arton thus daintily sings its praises : — 



' The Lily of the Yale, whose virgin flowers 

 Scent every breeze beneath its leafy bowerfe.' 



Keats, revelling to his heart's delight, immortalised it in the 

 strongest terms : — 



' No flower amid the garden fairer grows 

 Than the sweet Lily of the lovely vale, 

 The queen of flowers.' 



' Sweet May Lilies richest odours shed 



Down in the valley's shady bed.' — Scott. 



' Where, scattered wild, the Lily of the Vale 

 Its balmy essences prevail.' — Thomson. 



' The Lily of the Vale, 

 That loves the ground, and from the sun withholds 

 Her pensive beauty, from the breeze her sweets.' — Wordsworth. 



' Dainty white Lily, 

 Dressed like a bride, 

 Shining with whiteness, 

 And scented beside,' — Anox. 



Convolvulus. — Among our common flowers there are many to be found 

 growing in the meadows which difiuse a gentle fragrance most 

 gratifying to the sense. The most frequent is the field Convolvulus, 

 ordinarily called 'Bindweed.' Its sweet-scented blossoms, whose 

 smell resembles that of the Almond, are striped with white and rose 

 colours, and with its leaves of a delicate green, trail along the 

 meadow, or around the trunks of trees, and sometimes support 

 themselves by clinging to the corn. The fragrance of these flowers 

 may be enjoyed by all during the summer and autumnal months, 

 with the many others to be found in every spot where the grass is 

 growing and the wild-flowers buddiug. Other dainty kinds will be 

 found under Ix)omrea. 



Conyza camphorata. — A hardy herbaceous shrub, giving off" a strong 

 smell of Camphor. Closely allied to our common Fleabane. 



Cooperia Drummondii {Evening Star Floicer). — A bulbous Central 

 American plant, that opens its long tubular and fragrant Primrose- 

 scented flowers during the evening. G. pedunculatco is another 

 scented variety that is night-blooming. 



