Aster. — October 9tb — Variety. 
Chide me not, laborious band, 
For the idle flowers I brought; 
Every aster in my hand 
Goes home loaded with a thought. 
Emeysoji. 
Cbrysaathemum. 
—lOtb — 
/ Cheerfxilness under 
\ Adversity. 
If such the soothing precepts taught by you, 
Beautiful blossoms ! well may ye appear 
As silent preachers in the Christian view. 
Btxrton. 
Chickweed. — Utb — Rendezvous. 
Chick'wekd ! will no one sing thee? like thy bard. 
Lowly, and little noted though thou art. 
Creeping o er fallows with thy pallid sward. 
Thou in my humble strains shall claim a part. 
Motherwell. 
Quaking Grass — I2tb — Agitation. 
What my delight in childhood’s days to find 
Thy thread-like stems trembling in everj’’ wind ; 
Ash — I3tb — Grandeur. 
The ash, aspiring upwards, rears its head. 
As if still higher from its native bed 
It sought to grow until it reached the sky. 
Arum (Wake Robin). — t4tb — Ardour 
An oak’s gnarVd root, to roof the cave. 
With Goriiic fretwork sprung. 
Where jewell’d fern, and arum leaves, d , 
And ivy garlands hung .—Caroline Southey. 
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