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BEAUTIES OF FLORA. 
lightly Truth her flight-; ni,,y pr'ize 
Id vagary driven, 
their blameless exercise 
purely be forgiven. 
                                  We roam the seas-give new-found isles 
                                    Some king's or conqueror's name; 
                                  We rear on earth triumphal piles, 
                                    As meeds of earthly fame: 
                                " We soar to heaven-and to outlive 
                                    Our life's contracted span, 
                                  Unto the glorious stars we give 
                                    The names of mortal man. 
                                  Then may not one poor flow'ret's bloom
                                    The holier memory share 
                                  Of Him who, to avert our doom, 
                                    Vouchsaf'd our sins to bear ? 
                                  God dwelleth not in temples rear'd 
                                    By work of human hands: 
                                  Yet shrines august, by men rever'd, 
                                    Are found in Christian lands. 
                                  And may not e'en a simple flower 
                                    Proclaim His glorious praise, 
                                  Whose Fiat only had the power 
                                    Its form from earth to raise ? 
                                  Then freely let thy blossom ope 
                                    Its beauties-to recall 
                                  A scene which bids the humble hope 
                                    In Him who died for all I" 
                                                      B. BARTON. 
     INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLOURING.-The neutral teint for the shading of the
flowers and leaves is 
composed of indigo and venetian red, for the diluting of which I prefer boiled
water. The corolla has 
first a wash of Indian yellow, to which, for the second wash, carmine is
added: the darker petals are 
afterwards strengthened with a deeper shade of the same colours; for the
more brilliant ones permanent 
scarlet is used. The whole is then finely worked with a long sable pencil
and a greater consistency of 
colour until the finish is attained. The nectarium, pistillum, and stamina,
are formed with Newman's 
constant white, touched with green and chrome yellow, No. 1. The green is
a mixture of gamboge 
and Prussian blue, with which, for the floral leaves, carmine is blended:
Cobalt blue and carmine are 
used in finishing the stalk.