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THE BEAUTIES OF FLORi 
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                            " Say, what impels me, pure and spotless
flower, 
                                To view thee with a secret sympathy? 
                                Is there some living spirit shrined in thee
? 
                              That as thou bloom'st within thy humble bower,
                              Endows thee with some strange mysterious power,
                                Waking high thought ?-As there perchance
mi, 
                                Some angel form of truth and purity, 
                              Whose hallowed presence shared my lonely hour?
                              Yes, lovely flower, 'tis not thy virgin glow,
                              Thy petals whiter than descending snow ; 
                              'Tis the soft image of some beaming mind, 
                              By grace adorned, by elegance refined, 
                              That o'er my heart thus holds its silent sway."
     For a detailed history of the Camellias, with an account of their 
most splendid figures of the different varieties, see MR. SAMUE] 
Camellias. 
     INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLOURING.-The corollas have a fleshy appe 
and with the exception of the under corolla and carina, they have pre, 
carmine is then added, the shades are strengthened with a greater prop 
worked; the buds and leaves from their situation and nature demand a 
Carmine and Indian yellow will give the teint of the upper calyces an 
ones. The green is a compound of gamboge and Prussian blue; carmi 
    The shades of the white Camellia must be delicately and cautious 
colours mentioned under the Cyclamen, and the centre lightly worked 
are formed with Newman's constant white and Chrome yellow; the ant] 
depth of shade is required to give the character of the leaves ; Ind 
comprise the green; the darker parts of which are softened by a bri 
when quite finished and perfectly dry, gum-water of a tolerable consist(