HP 
THE FLORAL GIFT. 31 
CHINA ASTER. 
Aster Chincnsis ,—Class 19, Order 2. 
A splendid garden annual, with single and double flowers, 
of various hues ; a native of China. 
LOVE OF VARIETY. 
To sigh, yet feel no pain, 
To weep, yet scarce know why ; 
To sport an hour with beauty’schain, 
Then throw it idly by ;— 
To kneel at many a shrine, 
Yet lay the heart on none ; 
To think all other charms divine, 
But those we just have won; 
This is love—careless love— 
Such as kindleth hearts that rove. 
