Yes, He Who made and fosters thee,

In reason's eye perforce must be
Of majesty divine.

Nor deems she, that His guardian care
Will He in man's support forbear,

Who thus provides for thine.

Much more poetry there is, that is beautiful, which we would gladly transfer to our pages, referring to this lovely flower, but want of room forbids; and we can only add, that the Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) belongs to the Linnæan class Hexandria and order Monogynia, and to the Natural order Smilacea.

THE WALL-FLOWER.

Cheiranthus; L. La giroflée; Fr. Die leucoje; Ger. Violier; Dutch. Leucojo; Ital. Alheli; Sp. Goiveiro; Port. Nægeisi; Arab. Gwoditschnüja fialke; Russ.

Ye wall-flowers, shed your tints of golden dye,
On which the morning sunbeams love to rest,
On which, when glory fills the glowing west,
The parting splendours of the day's decline,
With fascination to the heart addressed,
So tender and beautifully shine,

As if reluctant still to leave that hoary shrine.

BARTON.

THE Common Wall-flower breathes out such an agreeable fragrance that it has ever found and retained a place in the gardens of all classes of society. It blooms abundantly in the months of April and May, indifferent whether its roots are planted in rich soil or poor, and consequently we always find the Wall-flower bound up in rustic nosegays. In the garden there are many varieties of all shades of colour, from pale yellow to deepest blood-red, the last being most odoriferous. The plant, however, with which we have more concern at the present, most delights to grow in crevices of old walls, the mouldering ruins of decayed and decaying abbeys, castles, and monasteries, to which it seems to cling with unshaken tenacity. Hence the flower has been made the emblem of "Friendship in adversity," and right justly too, since the devastations of time, the rude hand of the kingly or noble despoiler of consecrated places, may waste and overthrow the structures, and leave them un

inhabited; but there the Wall-flower still blooms and scatters its fragrance over the heaped ruins. In such its character it is described by Moir, Blackwood's Magazine.

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Flower of the solitary place!
Grey ruin's golden crown!
Thou lendest melancholy grace
To haunts of old renown;
Thou mantlest o'er the battlement,
By strife or storm decayed;

And fillest up each envious rent
Time's canker-tooth hath made.

Whither hath fled the choral band
That filled the abbey's nave?
Yon dark sepulchral yew-trees stand
O'er many a level grave;

In the belfry's crevices, the dove

Her young brood nurseth well,

Whilst thou lone flower! dost shed above

A sweet decaying smell.

Sweet wall-flower-sweet wall-flower!

Thou conjurest up to me,

Full many a soft and sunny hour

Of boyhood's thoughtless glee :
When joy from out the daisies grew
In woodland pastures green,
And summer skies were far more blue
Than since they e'er have been.

Rich is the pink, the lily gay,
The rose is summers guest;

Bland are thy charms when these decay-
Of flowers, first, last, and best!
There may be gaudier on the bower,
And statelier on the tree;

But wall-flower, loved wall-flower,
Thou art the flower for me!

The common Wall-flower (Cheirnthus cheiri) is furnished with a shrubby stem, throwing out angular branches. Its leaves are lance-shaped, acute, and hoary beneath, with simple hairs pressed on the surIt belongs to the Linnæan class Tetradynamia and order Siliquosa, and to the Natural order Crucifera.

THE WILD GERANIUM.

Geranium; Herit. La geranion; Fr. Der storchsnabel; Ger. Oijevaarsbek; Dutch. Geranio; Ital. and Port. Jereino; Sp. Schuratelinei nos; Russ. Pychawiec; Pol.

Or the Wild Geranium, or Crane's-bill, there are many indigenous species, of which the Dusky Crane'sbill/Geranium phæum) is perhaps the most showy; and consequently it is not surprising to find it frequently cultivated in gardens. Its native habitat is chiefly in the thickets and woods of the rocky and hilly districts of the north of England, where it grows to about two feet high. The leaves are placed alternately on the stem, their lobes being sharply cut and serrated, very deeply veined, and convex, with a downy pubescence, as is also the calyx. Its root is perennial, and the flowers bloom in May and June.

We shall only mention, in this place, one other species, which is usually known as Herb Robert (G. Robertianum). It is at once a very common and very elegant plant, and well fitted to every variety of soil and to any aspect. The whole herb is more or less hairy, and very brittle. The stems are branched and spreading. The leaves grow on long footstalks, and are cut into five angles in their general outline; the segments are deeply cut, and the points are all very sharp; the flowers are very bright and conspicuous, their petals being entirely of a red or purple colour, with longitudinal white streaks from the base. The flower has a very strong and peculiar odour, which we think very disagreeable, and probably