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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
LASTING BEAUTY. 
Stock, or Gillyflower. — Matlriola. 
“ Fair is the gillyflow’r of gardens sweet.” 
Gay. 
“ And lavish stock, that scents the garden round.” 
Thompson. 
Lasting beauty is represented by this flower 
whose charms, although less graceful than 
the rose or the lily, are more durable, and 
consequently embellishes the parterre for a 
greater length of time. 
“ Herbs and flowers, the beauteous birth 
Of the genial womb of earth. 
Suffer but a transient death. 
From the winter’s cruel breath ! 
Zephyr speaks—serener skies, 
Warm the glebe, and they arise ! 
We, alas ! earth’s haughty kings. 
We that promise mighty things. 
