THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
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WHITE JASMINE.— Amiability. 
Luxuriant above all 
The Jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets, 
The deep dark green of whose unvarnished leaf 
Makes more conspicuous, and illumines more 
The bright profusion of her scattered stars. 
Coivper. 
THE WHORTLE OR BILBERRY:— Treachery. 
Wordsworth thus speaks of this juicy, but some¬ 
what insipid fruit:— 
Nor lacked, for more delight on that warm day, 
Our table, small parade of garden fruits, 
And Whortle-berries from the mountain side. 
WILD FLOWERS OF THE TROSACHS. 
Sir Walter Scott has thus depicted the Wild 
Flowers that embellish the picturesque scenery of the 
Trosachs:— 
All twinkling with the dew-drop sheen, 
The brier-rose fell in streamers green, 
And creeping shrubs of thousand dyes, 
Waved in the west-wind’s summer sighs. 
Boon nature scattered, free and wild, 
Each plant or flower, the mountain’s child. 
Here eglantine embalmed the air, 
Hawthorn and hazel mingled there; 
The primrose pale, and violet flower, 
Found in each cliff a narrow bower; 
