“ Fair handed Spring unbosoms every grace ; 
Throws out the snowdrop and the crocus first, 
The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue, 
The polyanthus of unnumbered dyes; 
The yellow wallflower stained with iron brown, 
And lavish stock that scents the garden round.” 
The peasant poet, Clare, also, often courts his 
muse when influenced by the attractions of the un- 
cultivated beauties of Spring-. — 
“ Bowing adorers of the gale. 
Ye cowslips delicately pale, 
Upraise your loaded stems; 
Unfold your cups in splendour, speak ! 
Who deck’d you with that ruddy streak, 
And gilt your golden gems ? 
. “ Violets, sweet tenants of the shade, 
In purple’s richest pride array’d, 
Your errand here fulfil ; 
Go, bid the artist’s simple stain 
Your lustre imitate in vain, 
And match your maker’s skill. 
“ Daises, ye flowers of lowly birth, 
Embroiderers of the carpet earth, 
That stud the velvet sod ; 
Open to Spring’s refreshing air, 
In sweetest smiling bloom declare 
Your Maker, and my God.” 
It is most conveniently increased by slippings, 
which may be taken off 1 as early as the month of 
May. If these be planted in a pot of rich sandy 
soil, covered with a bell-glass, and placed in a 
hotbed, they will readily strike root, and become 
strong plants before the approach of winter. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 77. 
