
MELANCHOLY SPIRIT. 
SORROWFUL GERANIUM. 
Few know that elegance of soul refined, 
Whose soft sensation feels a quicker joy 
From melancholy’s scenes, than the dull pride 
Of tasteless splendour and magnificence 
Can e’er afford. WARTON, 
Tuts charming geranium, like a melancholy 
spirit, shuns the light of day; but it enchants 
those who cultivate it by the delightful per- 
fumes it exhales. Its appearance is sombre, 
though unaffected ; and, altogether, it forms a 
striking contrast to the scarlet geranium, which 
is the emblem of stupidity. 
MESSAGE, 
IRIS, 
Every varying hue 
Of every beautiful thing on earth,—the tints 
Of heaven’s own Ivis,—all are in the west 
On this delicious eve. CARRINGTON. 
Tuis plant is supposed to have been named 
after Juno’s attendant, because its colours are 
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