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wTU UPAITTIES OF FLORA. 
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                              FIDELITY IN MISFORTUNE. 
          Cheiradthus cheiri.                                         The
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               NITural Order.                                           
    Class 
               CRUCIFER..                                           TETRADYNA
CHJEIRANTHUS is from    the Arabic kheyry, the name of a plant with red swei
Wallflower is chosen the symbol of Fidelity in Misfortune on account of its
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and enlivening the ruins which time and neglect have made. " It hides
the 
times on the castle walls; fills the space of the wanted stone in the mouldering
garland on the crumbling monument, where grateful memory no longer lingers.'
                                For this, obedient zephyrs bear 
                                  Her light seeds round yon turret's mould;
                                And undispers'd by tempest there, 
                                  They rise in vegetable gold." 
                                                     LAWGHORNS. 
                                The Wallflower only shall be mine; 
                                  Its simple faith is dear to me ; 
                                To roofless tower and prostrate shrine 
                                  It clings with patient constancy. 
                                And prodigal of love, blooms on, 
                                  Though all unseen its beauties die, 
                                And, though for desert gales alone, 
                                  Breathes fragrance rich as Araby. 
                              " Oh, there appears a generous scorn 
                                  Of all requital in its choice! 
                                The thousand flowers that earth adorn, 
                                  In earth's exuberant stores rejoice. 
                                It only asks the freshening dew, 
                                  Imparting all where naught is given- 
                                Raised above earth, as if it drew 
                                  Its only nutriment from heaven." 
                                                       C. H. TowNSEND. 
     INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLOURING.-The corollas of the Helen Geranium 
ink and crimson lake; the Wallflower and leaves with the grey as usual. 
      Lake 
former, to which in giving the veins and splash of colour in the darker petals
add ( 
formed of white and finished with mineral orange. The brighter parts of the
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a wash of Indian yellow    alone.   Carmine is added    for the darker. 
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comprise the green for both. Venetian red will give the red teint on the
veins.