OR, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 11 
which, by its balmy influence, calls the 
floral world into existence. He is repre¬ 
sented as a young man of delicate form, 
with wings on his shoulders, and his head 
crowned with a variety of flowers. 
In our own land, the appreciation of 
flowers is increasing; they are more ex¬ 
tensively cultivated, and new varieties 
have been introduced. From the nobility 
down to the peasant flowers are loved. 
How delightful, when spring and summer 
have come again, to walk in the garden, 
or in the fields, or to ramble through the 
woods, to gather sweet flowers! Such 
pleasure is pourtrayed in the following 
lines :— 
Oh ! is it not a pleasant thing to wander through 
the woods, 
To look upon the painted flowers, and watch the 
opening buds ? 
Or seated in the deep cool shade, at some tall 
ash-tree’s root, 
To fill my little basket with the sweet and scent¬ 
ed fruit P 
0 lovely flowers, this world would bo 
drear and desolate without you 1 Are you 
