198 THE ASSOCIATIONS OF FLOV/ERS 
necessarily present ; and the change of taste in England 
has not affected its frequent use on the Continent, as a 
flower peculiarly adapted for the interior of houses. It 
was brought hither from Cainiola ; but its training has had 
considerable effect in altering its general appearance. It 
was formerly called steeple milkie bell-flower. 
A small and elegant border-flower, the Venus’s looking- 
glass (Campanula speculum), received its name from the 
resemblance of its round-shaped blossom to the form of 
a small mirror; and being thought particularly pretty, it 
was appropriated too to the Goddess of Beauty. The 
mirrors of the ancients were always circular in form.. The 
flower was originally brought from the south of Europe ; 
but it was thought by Sir J. E. Smith that a pretty little 
campanula which grows in the corn-fields in the midland 
and southern counties of England, the corn bell-flower, is 
the same species. It is certainly very similar, but not so 
large as the cultivated kind. The Venus’s looking-glass 
is abundant in corn-fields on the Continent, and may be 
found in such places immediately over the Channel. 
The order called by botanists Campanulacese contains a 
few others besides the bell-flowers, which are more similar 
to them in their properties than in their general appear- 
ance. 
The Faded Heather. 
It is recorded of the Highland emigrants to Canada that 
they wept because the heather would not grow in their 
newly-adopted soil. 
There may be some too brave to weep 
O’er poverty, or care, or wrong, 
Within whose manly bosoms sleep 
Emotions gentle, warm, and strong ; 
Which wait the wakening of a tone, 
L^nmarked, unthought of by the crowd, 
And seeming unto them alone 
A voice both eloquent and loud ; 
And then the feelings, hid for years. 
Burst forth at length in burning tears. 
