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(Eom)allcU*ta luajalts. Natural Order: Liliacecc—Lily Family. 
'HEN wandering through the woods and sweetly-sleeping 
wales, in early May, we find this beautiful plant peering up 
fits head, crowned with umbels of white, odoriferous, and 
modest flowers. It should be a frequent denizen of our 
gardens, for its own modest beauty, as well as for its classic 
association, having been the theme of poets of all ages. Clumps 
of the roots can be obtained of almost any seedsman, and once set will 
continue to increase, and give you bloom of which one can never have 
too many. In the vicinity of Matlock, England, there are many acres 
covered with this plant, which, when in bloom, attract many visitors, 
and the spot is known in that section of the country as the Via Gellia. 
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MY sated senses seem afloat upon a waveless sea; 
For all around me, all above, is beauteous harmony! 
—Sallie A. Brock. 
\ BREEZY noise, which is not breeze, 
^ *- And white-clad children by degrees 
Steal out in troops among the trees. 
Fair little children, morning-bright, 
With faces grave, yet soft to sight, 
Expressive of restrained delight. 
Some plucked the palm boughs within reach, 
And others leaped up high to catch 
The upper boughs, and shake from each 
A rain of dew, till, wetted so, 
The child who held the branch let go, 
And it swang backward with a flow 
Of faster drippings. Then I knew 
The children laughed — but the laugh flew 
From its own chirrup, as might do 
A frightened song-bird; and a child 
Who seemed the chief, said, very mild, 
“Hush! keep this morning undefiled.” 
-iMrs. Browning. 
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PAIR flower, that, lapt in lowly glade, 
1 Dost hide beneath the greenwood shade, 
Than whom the vernal gale 
None fairer wakes, on bank, or spray, 
Our England’s lily of the May, 
Our lily of the Vale! —Maui. 
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