Of the many other plants dedicated to the Virgin may be mentioned the snowdrop, popularly known as the "fair maid of February," opening its floweret at the time of Candlemas.

[Sub-Footnote ii: See 'Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude', l. 54: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale.

There is dew for the floweret, And honey for the bee, And bowers for the wild bird, And love for you and me.

Then for the streamlets and flowerets "Where'er he treads, the earth her tribute pours, In gushing springs, or voluntary flowers.

Chapter I. "An acorn fell from an old oak tree, And lay on the frosty ground 'O, what shall the fate of the acorn be?' Was whispered all around By low-toned voices chiming sweet, Like a floweret's bell when swung And grasshopper steeds were gathering fleet, And the beetle's hoofs up-rung.

"Far on the prairies of the West, A lovely floweret grows; With glowing pen, each traveller oft Describes the Prairie Rose.

" The fragrant floweret thrills with tenderness, With richer fragrance answers his caress.

MEPHISTOPHELES You really talk Like any gay Lothario, Who every floweret from its stalk Would pluck, and deems nor grace, nor truth, Secure against his arts, forsooth!

Give me the wreath of friendship true, Whose flowerets fade not in a breath: From memory gaining many a hue, To bloom beyond the touch of death.

she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!

Ye rocky heightsye violet-meads appearing Once fairer to my gaze than poet's dream Now all your golden light to gloom is veering, And every floweret laves in Lethe's stream.

The lantana, with its yellow and magenta flowerets, umbrella ferns, and aihere, the herbe de vache, and the bohenia, used by the Tahitians for an eye lotion, were all about.

But "No," the selfish owner cried, And pushed his comrades all aside, While walking round his bower with pride, "Not one of you shall sever A floweret from the stem so gay; I own them, not to give away!

but as flowerets o'er a tomb.

The orange-trees, covered from trunk to crown with white, ivory-smooth flowerets, seemed like webs of spun glass, the vegetation of one of those fantastic snow-mantled landscapes that quiver sometimes in the glass spheres of paper-weights.

Lo! beneath the humble tomb, Obscure the luckless maiden sleeps; Round it pity's flowerets bloom,

But one should cut matters short with men of business, and not put one's fine flowerets under their nose; one should spare them, and make himself understood rather by looks than words.

But thou, thou evil one, hast come, To bring this wee rose to its doom, Not i' time of woe and gloom, But i' the spring, When flowerets just begin to bloom.

The leaves turned pale on the trees, the flowerets bent their heads, and the bees and butterflies fell lifeless to the earth.

For not to us do these thine arrows seem Pointed with tender flowerets; not to us Doth the pale Moon irradiate the earth With beams of silver fraught with cooling dews; But on our fevered frames the moon-beams fall Like darts of fire, and every flower-tipt shaft Of Káma, as it probes our throbbing hearts, Seems to be barbed with hardest adamant.

When they had passed all those troubled ways, The Garden sweet spread forth her green to shew; The moving crystal from the fountains plays; Fair trees, high plants, strange herbs and flowerets new, Sunshiny hills, vales hid from Phoebus' rays, Groves, arbours, mossie caves at once they view, And that which beauty most, most wonder brought, No where appear'd the Art which all this wrought.

Milton turns his acquaintance with flowers to divine account in his Lycidas. Return; Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.

But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den.

See on that floweret's velvet breast, How close the busy vagrant lies?

When ready to serve, separate the flowerets, lay them on lettuce leaves, cover with French dressing and sprinkle one tablespoon of chopped parsley over the top.