Of mutual hearts, grow up and live in beauty,
Then fade and fall like fair, unconscious flowers?

*

A voice within us speaks that startling word, "Man thou shalt never die?"

Celestial voices

Hymn it unto our souls: according harps,
By angel fingers touched when the mild stars
Of morning sang together, sound forth still
The song of our great immortality.

Dana.

AMARANTH, GLOBE.
Gomphrena, Globosa.

Class 19. Order 5

(Everlasting,) Native of India. There are several varieties of this species; white, purple, and variegated. They resemble in their form, heads of clover.

UNCHANGEABLE.

And hang long locks of hair and garlands bound
With Amaranth flowers,

Such flowers as in the wintry memory bloom
Of one friend left.

Southey.

SENTIMENT.

Think not, beloved, time can break

The spell around us cast;

Or absence from my bosom take

The memory of the past:

My love is not that silvery mist,

From summer blooms by sunbeams kissed,

Too fugitive to last

A fadeless flower, it still retains

The brightness of its earlier stains.

Nor burns it like the raging fire,

In tainted breast which glows;

All wild and thorny as the brier
Without its opening rose:
A gentler, holier love is mine,
Unchangeable and firm, while thine
Is pure as mountain snows;
Nor yet has passion dared to breathe
-A spell o'er Love's immortal wreath.

Anon. (Albany Advertiser)

AMARYLLIS.
Formosissima.

Class 6.

Order 1.-A very splendid and numerous genus, chiefly tropical, and principally indigenous to America and the southern tremity of Africa. Flowers deep red.

ex

BEAUTIFUL BUT TIMID.

When heaven's high vault condensing clouds deform,
Fair Amaryllis flies the incumbent storm,

Seeks, with unsteady step the sheltered vale,
And turns her blushing beauties from the gale.

Darwin.

SENTIMENT.

She looked how lovely.-Not the face of heaven
In its serenest colors, nor earth in all

Its garniture of flowers, nor all that live

In the bright world of dreams, nor all the eye
Of a creative spirit meets in air,

Could in the smile and sunshine of her charms,

Not feel itself o'ermastered by such rare

And perfect beauty:-Yet she bore herself
So gently, that the lily on its stalk,

Bends not so easily its dewy head.

Percival.

AMBROSIA.
Ambrosia.

(Bitter weed.) Class 19, Order 5.A North American genus, with the exception of 1 species in Peru, and another indigenous to the sea shores of the Levant. Found in upper Louisiana.

LOVE RETURNED.

To farthest shores the ambrosial spirit flies,
Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.

Pope.

SENTIMENT.

And canst thou not accord thy heart
In unison with mine,

Whose language thou alone hast heard,
Thou only canst divine:

And wilt thou not revoke that cold

And merciless decree,

Nor yield one solitary thought,

To plead my wrongs to thee?

Dawes.

ANSWER.

Oh, knowest thou, dear one, of Woman's love,
With its faith that woes more deeply prove,
Its fondness wide as the limitless wave,
And chainless by aught than the silent grave;

With devotion as humble as that which brings
To his idol the Indian's offerings;

Yet proud as that which the priestess feels,

When she nurses the flame of the shrine while she kneels :

Oh, knowest thou dear, what this love may be?

Such ever has been in my heart for thee.

Mrs. Embury.

AMERICAN STARWORT.
Aster, tradescanti.

Class 19. Order 2. This genus, consisting of more that 100 species is almost exclusively indigenous to N. America and the cape of Good Hope. It flowers late, and the flowers are of every variety of color.

WELCOME TO A STRANGER.

And thus doth come the autumn flowers,
Lingering like exiles on their way,
And ere they venture to our bowers
Put on their best of bright and gay.

Anonymous.

SENTIMENT.

Stranger, new flowers in our vales are seen,
With a dazzling eye, and a lovely green.—
They scent the breath of the dewy morn,
They feed no worm, and they hide no thorn,
But revel and glow in our balmy air,

They are flowers which Freedom hath planted there.

This bud of welcome to thee we give,—
Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live;
It shall charm thee from all a stranger's pain,
Reserve, suspicion and dark disdain;

A race in its freshness and bloom are we,
Bring no cares from a worn-out world with thee.

Mrs. Sigourny.

ANEMONE.
Anemone. Virginiana.

(Wind flower.) Class 13, Order 13 Principally European, but found in America. The flowers of the Anemone are of various colors-white, blue, purple, yellow, crimson, &c.

ANTICIPATION:

Beside a fading bank of snow
A lovely Anemone blew,

Unfolding to the sun's bright glow
Its leaves of heaven's serenest hue-
"Tis Spring, I cried, pale winter's fled,
The earliest wreath of flowers is blown,
The blossoms withered long and dead
Will soon proclaim their tyrant flown.

Percival.

SENTIMENT.

Alas! that dreams are only dreams,
That fancy cannot give

A lasting beauty to those forms

Which scarce a moment live.

Alas! that youth's fond hopes should fade,

And love be but a name,

While its rainbows followed e'er so fast,

Are distant still the same.

APOCYNUM.
Hypericifolium.

Dawes.

(Indian Hemp.) Class 5. Order 2. There are several species of this genus in South America, India and the cape of Good Hope.

FALSEHOOD.

I bid thee of this fair smiling friend beware,
And say the false Apocynum is there.

Darwin.

SENTIMENT.

We talk of love and pleasure-but 'tis all
A tale of falsehood. Life is made of gloom,