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I PARTAKE YOUR SENTIMENTS. 
GARDEN DAISY. 
Within the garden’s cultured round, 
It shares the sweet carnation’s bed. 
J. MONTGOMERY. 
Tue daisy, like many other plants, undergoes 
a considerable change, when transplanted from 
its native field to the cultivated parterre. To 
preserve them, however, in their altered state, 
it seems necessary to divide the roots and 
transplant them every year. They thrive best 
in a moist loamy soil, without any admixture 
of manure; and continue in flower for a longer 
period if shaded from the heat of the mid-day 
sun. 
The garden daisy has been adopted to express 
reciprocity of feeling, in reference to an ancient 
custom in the days of chivalry. When the 
mistress of a knight permitted him to engrave 
this flower on his scarf, it was understood as a 
public avowal that she partook of his senti- 
ments. Leyden has favoured us with some 
beautiful lines on the daisy, in which he alludes 
to this custom :— 
Star of the mead! sweet daughter of the day, 
Whose opening flower invites the morning ray, 
From thy moist cheek, and bosom’s chilly fold, 
To kiss the tears of eve, the dew-drops cold y 
