Scabiosa atfopurpitrca. Natural Order: Difisacecz—Teasel Family. 
S&URNING BRIDE (Sweet Scabious) is a perennial plant, 
but as it is only half-hardy in the Northern climate, and 
9 blooms the first season, it is sown every summer and 
allowed to perish with the frost ; although it would be 
worth the trial to see if some light protection would not 
y /*• ? save it, as most perennial plants bloom better when the 
jy roots are well established. For many years it has been a favorite 
£ garden flower, being neat in habit, with very pretty tapering foliage 
!>! and desirable blossoms. The buds are bunched together like a 
semi-spherical cushion, the rounded side up, the lower row ol 
•y florets of which open first, and, when all are expanded, fairly 
^ijr crowd each other for room. They are velvety in texture, and in 
some of the purples and maroons the colors are so intense that 
H the eye can scarcely penetrate the depth of their tints, as they are 
only a shade or two from being black; hence the epithet, atropurpurea, or dark 
purple. There are some light varieties, also white. They have the odor ol 
musk. 
Unfortunate ^HnrlpiniL 
T HAVE thrust away in silence each loving thought of you; 
A I have laid to rest each memory, so tender and so true; 
I have prayed upon my bended knees for power to forget, 
And the answer to that prayer is this — I love you, love you yet! 
— Christian Reid. 
T NEED not say how, one by one, 
^ Love’s flowers have dropp’d from oft' love’s chain, 
Enough to say that they are gone, 
And that they cannot bloom again. 
—Miss Landon. 
ATOT one sigh shall tell my story, 
’ Not one tear my cheek shall stain; 
Silent grief shall be my glory — 
Grief that stoops not to complain. 
— Mrs. Robinson. 
TTNIIAPPY he, who lets a tender heart, 
k- 1 Bound to him by the ties of earliest love, 
Fall from him by his own neglect, and die, 
Because it met no kindness. — Percival. 
AH me! I thought you loved me well — 
1 Our human eyes are blind; 
He only reads life’s parable, 
Who never looks behind. — Barton Grey. 
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