POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
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LAUREL, MOUNTAIN. 
Rhododendron .... Class 10 ; Order 1. 
AMBITION. 
Thou callest me the glorious Sun; 
Then thou the Moon shalt be ; 
For idle all the fame I’ve won, 
Unless conferred on thee. 
I only covet dazzling light. 
That I may see tliee shine; 
And gladly hide myself from sight, 
To leave the world all thine! 
Then think not I forget thee, love, 
Though high my course may be; 
Not mine the laurel wreath they’ve wove— 
I won it, love, for thee! 
However easy a task it may be for the bo¬ 
tanist, to the florigraphist it is a work of almost 
insurmountable difficulty to distinguish the 
Laurel from the Bay , so inextricably are they 
combined. There appears to be little doubt 
that the tree really selected to typify glory is 
the Sweet Bay, or Daphne; whilst the laurel, 
commonly so called, belongs to another genus, 
and is scientifically known as Prunus, a word 
presumedly of Asiatic origin. 
The sweet bay was deemed by both Greek? 
