TEXT-BOOK OF FLOWERS 
Precaution, 
b-olden Rod. 
With flo’rets wrapped in silkv down, to iruard it 
from the bee, 
Pie caution’s emblem we may well in Solidago sec. 
Precocity, May Rose. 
Early comer, ere the summer, 
Thou dost all thy sweets dispense, and all thj 
charms display; 
When June com^th, no bee hummeth 
Houiuj thy beauteous blossom, it hath hastened u 
decay: 
So precocious Summer flowers untimely fade away. 
Preference 
Apple Blossom 
>* ho would not thy bloom prefer, 
< if ripe fruit the harbinger, 
To the fairest flowers that blow, 
And about their odours throw. 
resumption, Snap Dragon 
" The stern and furious lion’s mouth ” 
Describe*! by Caiumella, thoudo>t wtar, 
Presuming thus to ape the ki..g of beasts. 
Pretension, 
Tiger Lm 
Who so gay as he, when drest 
In his spotted scarlet vest? 
What pretence is in his air; 
Mark him in the garden there ! 
