which we are favoured by Nature. Under any 
circumstances we may agree with Mason in saying, 
“ To Nature’s dictates mild with rev’rence yield ; 
She with rich colours dyes the laughing field. 
Haste thenj wdth flow’rs your varied garden grace; 
Flow’rs give a lovelier smile to Nature’s face; 
Flow’rs are the models fair of brilliant art ; 
Ye simply-charming tributes of the heart ! 
Ev’n friendship deigns your gentle aid to prove, 
You weave the fairest gift of trembling love ; 
By you adorn’d more brightly beauty shines, 
You ’mid her laurel wTeatb, proud conquest twines. 
You at the village feast are oft decreed 
To modest maidens as the dearest meed ; 
To God himself with grateful hearts we bring 
The earliest incense of the breathing spring, 
And on his altar throw your blushing spoils, 
While, with your chaplet crown’d, religion smiles.” 
As well as our present white-flowered Epigaea 
repens, a red-flowered variety was published in 
Sweet’s Flower Garden, in 1837, but which, it 
may be feared, has been lost to the country. It is 
even a prettier plant than the present subject. The 
treatment of each will be the same ; that is, they 
should have a rather shaded and sheltered situation, 
be planted in sandy peat, and have their trailing 
stems pegged down, as they advance in growth, to 
prevent their being blown about and injured. This 
treatment affords also another advantage, some of 
the branches will strike root, and may ultimately be 
separated for increase. In severe frost a mat thrown 
over it would prevent injury from the alternation 
of freezing and thawing. 
