POETRY OF FLOWERS. 61 
This little plant is endowed with several 
strange properties, not the least singular of which 
is the fact that if lands are turned up for the first 
time, and strewed with lime, white clover springs 
up in abundance, typifying to the Avondering 
farmer promise of future bounteous crops. No 
satisfactory solution of this circumstance has 
yet been propounded. The spontaneous coming 
up of this floAver is deemed an infallible indica¬ 
tion of good soil. Every one knoAvs all the 
wonderful things and brilliant future promised 
to the finder of a four-leaved shamrock! Dear 
reader, may you be that favorite of Fortune ! 
COREOPSIS. 
Cor. tinctoria .... Class 19 : Order 1. 
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This is a bright yellow flower, much cultivated in 
modern gardens. It continues in blossom from 
June till autumn. 
ALWAYS CHEERFUL. 
Lovely thou art, ay, lovely; 
And sorrow shared with thee, 
As if magician-changed, becomes 
A pleasure unto me. 
