18 THE FLORAL GIFT. 
BIRCH. 
Betula sp ;—Class 21, Order 8. 
An ornamental tree of temperate climateo, 
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. 
JV. C. Brooke. 
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