CHAPTER XVII. 
FLOWERS AND BEDDING PLANTS, AND THEIR SETTINGS. 
We are the sweet flowers 
Bom of sunny showers, 
(Think whene’er you see us, what our beauty saith), 
Utterance mute and bright, 
Of some unknown delight, 
We fill the air with pleasure by our simple breath: 
All who see us, love us: 
We befit our places; 
Unto sorrow we give smiles, unto graces—races. 
See (and scorn all duller 
Taste) how heaven loves color; 
How great Nature clearly joys in red and green; 
What sweet thoughts she thinks, 
Of violets and pinks, 
And a thousand flushing hues made solely to be seen; 
See her whited lilies 
Chill the silver showers, 
And what a red mouth is her rose, the woman of her flowers. 
Chorus of Flowers, Leigh Hunt. 
A S all vegetable productions, from the greatest trees to the 
minute mosses, are equally flowering plants, it is to be 
understood that the subject of flowers, as here treated, 
is limited to observations on annuals, perennials, and 
bedding plants. 
