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wreath that crowns the happy, the innocent, and 
the gay. 
Keats has assigned a diadem to this lowly 
plant : 
No flower amid the garden fairer grows 
Than the sweet lily of the lowly vale, 
The queen of flowers. 
But we must not forget that, like a delicate 
maiden, it ever loves retirement : 
In the lone copse or shadowy dale, 
Wild clustered knots of hare-bells blow, 
And droops the lily of the vale. 
SMITH. 
VANE One 
REVERIE. 
FLOWERING FERN. 
TueRF are great varieties of fern in different 
parts of the world, but they are seldom culti- 
vated in gardens. The flowering fern is the 
finest of all our native species. Mathiole attri- 
butes to this, which grows principally in shady 
and humid places, the virtue of inspiring pro- 
phetic dreams. 


