THE FLORAL GIFT. 
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BIRCH. 
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Betula sp .—Class 21, Order 8. 
An ornamental tree of temperate climates, 
GRACEFULNESS. 
I fill this cup, to one made up, of loveliness 
, alone 
A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming 
paragon, 
To whom the better elements, and kindly 
stars have given, 
A form so fair, that like the air ’tis less of 
earth than heaven. 
Edward. C. Pinckney . 
As the bird in tropic bowers 
Ever waves its sportive wing, 
’Mid the bright and balmy flowers, 
Without voice of sorrowing ; 
So will joy and smiles, thy hours 
Fit, thou light and fairy thing. 
JY'. C. Brooks. 
