246 BOTANY. 
In summer the rose — “ the lady rose” — the rich, the radiant 
— lavishes upon him its wealth'of bloom and its inimitable 
odour; and in autumn the lovely snowdrop; — 
Thou beautiful new-comer, 
With white and maiden brow, 
Thou fairy gift from summer! 
Why art thou blooming now? 
No sweet companion pledges 
Thy health as dewdrops pass ; 
No rose is on the hedges, 
No violet in the grass; 
Thou art watching, and thou only, 
Above the earth’s snow-tomb ; 
Thus lovely and thus lonely, 
I bless thee for thy bloom. 
Even winter has its gifts for him. He will find in the 
woods, among other treasures, the bramble-rose, the “ tears of 
Job,” and the snow-white delicate blossoms of the “ fairy’s 
thimble:” — 
“What, the thimble of a fairy ! and can a fairy sew?” 
Inquired a little, wondering girl — “oh! tell me if you know ! 
Does she stitch together violet-leaves, to make her fragrant gown, 
And wad her cloak, to keep her warm, with flying thistle-down ?” 
We now present to our readers a short chapter on botany on 
the Linneean system. 
Every plant is either phenogamus or cryptogamous. Phenog- 
amous plants have their stamens and pistils sufficiently mani¬ 
fest for examination. Cryptogamous plants either lose their 
staminate organs before they become manifest, or they are too 
minute for inspection. 
The classes, orders, and genera, of the Linnscan system, are 
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