(Eatalia COCClUfCl. Natural Order: Comfiositcc — Aster Family. 
CARLET Cacalia is a native of the East Indies, where nature 
revels in the most brilliant hues conceivable to the human mind, 
and where flowers assume shapes more innumerable than in 
this our cool and more temperate climate. Yet we must admit 
^3,the most of them behave admirably in their adopted homes, 
sometimes diminishing their stature, but always remaining objects 
worthy of attention. The Cacalia blossom is shaped like a beautiful 
little brush or tassel, and is sometimes called Venus’s Paint Brush, or 
Tassel Flower. There are two varieties grown in our gardens, one 
an orange scarlet, the other a golden yellow. They appear to better 
advantage in masses when not too thickly sown, and if the withered 
owers are removed, will bloom profusely until frost. 
T F we from wealth to poverty descend, 
Want gives to know the flat’rer from the friend. 
— Dryden. 
'T'HOU delightest the cold world’s gaze, And gay is the playful tone, 
1 When crowned with the flower and the gem, As to the flattering voice thou respondest; 
But thy lover’s smile should be dearer praise But what is the praise of the cold and unknown 
Than the incense thou prizest from them. To the tender blame of the fondest? 
— ’John Everett. 
A J O adulation; ’tis the death of virtue! 
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, 
Save he who courts the flatterer. —Hannah More. 
T AM not form’d, by flattery and praise, 
A By sighs and tears, and all the whining trade 
Of love, to feed a fair one’s vanity; 
To charm at once and spoil her. 
— Thompson. 
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\ SPIRIT, pure and fine and true 
^ ^ As ever dwelt in human form: 
A love as deep, as fond, as warm, 
As ever loving woman knew. 
—Kate J. Hill, 
