TEXT-BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
Sculpture, 
Hoya. 
When thou, fair climber, with thy tendrils fine, 
Kmbracest column, frieze, or architrave, 
And spread’st o’er all thy blossoms delicate. 
So like are they to statuary work, 
That it appears “ with bossy sculpture graven. 
Secresy. 
Maiden Hair. 
The botanist hath sought in vain 
Thy germinating parts to find, 
The secret only to the "ind 
Thou tell’st, and over hill and plain 
He bears thy seed, to multiply 
Thy silken tressed progeny. 
Sensuality, Spanish Jasmin. 
nut thy voluptous fragrance thou dost pour, 
Until tne sickening sense can bear no more. 
Separation, Trumpet Flower. 
The ash-leaved Trumpet flower, whose gay corollas 1 
llrop off, and leave the pistil unprotected ; 
So lightly separate from those once loved, 
The fickle hearts that know not true affection. 
Vj 
Seventy, 
Branch of Thorn. 
Thorns in the flesh wc all must bear. 
Life’s trials are severe; 
If here the cmwn of thorns we wear, 
it is to humble and prepare 
Us for another sphere. 
.ft.- 
# 52 ^ 
