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TEXT-BOOK OF FLOWERS 
Ornament, Hornbeam Tree, 
In ornamental g-rounds *tis thine 
To form the straight or curving line, 
Which separates the trim parterres. 
The terraced walks, the marble stairs. 
Painting, Auricula. 
In comes th’Auricula: "arrayed she comes 
In splendour, and in liveliest beauty blooms 
Rich are her velvet leaves with hues divine. 
Where rays of light witu ebon >diades combine 
Art hath diversified what nature wrought. 
As doth the painter’s hand enrich the poet’s 
Parasite. Mistletoe. 
It clingeth, it ciingeth, and flourisheth still. 
And sucketh tliejuiv.es, its own veins to fill. 
Of the stem which supports it; a parasite bold. 
That will never leave go, having once taken hold. 
Participation, Double Daisy, 
The many-petaled flower, whose leaflets all 
Participate iu one receptacle. 
Paternal Error, Card a min e. 
The Cuckoo Flower with (t idle weeds that grow. 
Mid the sustaining corn ! entwined the brow 
Of Lear in his madness;” and irom thence 
Trace we its here implied significance. 
