148 LANGUAGE AND 
as white, there are several colored varieties be¬ 
longing to the species ; as, for instance, one with 
red' blossoms, one with double red, and one 
much larger than the common sort, beautifully 
variegated with purple. 
Keats was very fond of this sly little floral 
fairy, and says: 
“No flower amid the garden fairer grows 
Than the sweet lily of the lowly vale, 
The queen of flowers.” 
LOCUST-TREE, GREEN. 
Robina, caragana . . . Class 17 ; Order 10. 
A very handsome ornamental tree or shrub. Blossoms 
white and fragrant. 
affection beyond the grave. 
What though the loving heart is wrung 
By chilling words of cold farewell ? 
And o’er its dying hopes is flung 
Their echoing knell? 
Shall we not meet in that bright land 
Where parting words are never spoken, 
Aid love is not a brittle band 
So lightly broken ? 
