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wherever we have had the opportunity of test¬ 
ing tliis opinion, Us correctness has been in¬ 
variably verified. 
Flowers have ever been closely allied with 
Poetry; they not only furnish subjects for the 
bard, but serve to enliven his verse by their 
appropriate introduction in beautiful similes, 
which, being readily appreciated, are treasured 
up in the storehouse of memory, to be thence 
drawn when we look on flowers, and so add a 
charm to objects which Nature has so bounti¬ 
fully clad with grace and leauty. It is, we 
belipve, the pleasure arising from association 
of ideas which renders the “Sentiment of 
Flowers ” of such intense interest to the ima¬ 
ginative mind ; it is purely poetical,—yes, 
’T was a beautiful thought, to tell the tale, 
Of Love and of Friendship in flow ers ; 
Affection to bear on the flagrant gale 
Perfumed by odorous bowers ! 
To sing of our hopes,—of joy, and of fear, 
In the lovely blossoms of the changing year. 
