(iloiTOpStS tilictoria. Natural Order: Composite—Aster Family. 
ANY are the varieties of this truly handsome annual, which 
derives its name from two Greek words, koris , a bug, and 
oflsis, appearance. The flowers are about an inch or an 
inch and a half in diameter, and in shape like a diminutive 
. .V- * :" sunflower, the rays or petals being yellow, crimson, maroon 
< and red; or yellow with one of the darker colors forming a 
at the base. They bloom profusely during the whole sum- 
The plants are delicate in growth and are about two feet 
They are natives of all the Southern States. 
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POULD you chain the blithe waves dancing wild in their glee? 
^ Could you check the glad mockbird his carol repeating, 
Hold the laughing leaves still that are fluttering free, 
Or the sungleams that o’er the green meadows are fleeting? 
And why is my voice attuned like a lute 
To the music that all things around me are feeling, 
If its voice in that concert alone must be mute, 
If I shut out the doctrine of nature’s revealing? 
— Elizabeth F. Ellet. 
HOWS of liquid eyes in laughter, 
How they glimmer, how they quiver! 
C\H! why delight to wrap the soul 
^ In pall of fancied sadness? 
Sparkling one another after, 
Like bright ripples on a river. 
Tipsy band of rubious faces, 
Flushed with Joy’s ethereal spirit, 
Make your mocks and sly grimaces 
At Love’s self, and do not fear it. 
—George Darley. 
A NU her against sweet cheerfulness was placed, 
’Twere best be merry while we live, 
And paint our cheeks with gladness; 
What if hope tells a “flattering tale,” 
And mocks us by deceiving, 
’Tis better far to be content,— 
There’s nothing made by grieving. 
— L. Labree. 
Whose eyes like twinkling stars in evening clear 
Were deck’t with smvles, that all sad humors chased, 
And darted forth delights, the which her goodly graced. 
— Spenser. 
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