All this while, when no coaxing or care prevailed upon any transplanted slip to grow, one was coming up silently outside the fence near the wicket, coiling so secretly in the rabbit-brush that its presence was never suspected until it flowered delicately along its twining length.

"I, ah,the white flower of twining (clematis), on my body and my hair, and so I sang: "I am the white flower of twining, Little white flower by the river, Oh, flower that twines close by the river; Oh, trembling flower!

"I, ah,the white flower of twining (clematis), on my body and my hair, and so I sang: "I am the white flower of twining, Little white flower by the river, Oh, flower that twines close by the river; Oh, trembling flower!

I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold, With wreaths of fame and interest.

Once upon a time, The two-shaped Ericthonius had his birth (Without a mother) from the teeming earth; 30 Minerva nursed him, and the infant laid Within a chest, of twining osiers made.

In vain the mariners would plough the main With sails unfurled, and strike their oars in vain; Around their oars a twining ivy cleaves, And climbs the mast and hides the cords in leaves: The sails are covered with a cheerful green, And berries in the fruitful canvas seen.

Some of the savages looked above, among the twining branches, and some shot their arrows in the snow, but fortunately not in the direction of Mary while others ran about in every direction, examining all the large trees in the vicinity.

This evergreen twining shrub is not to be generally recommended, it requiring wall protection even in southern England.

Just now I asked Mr. Twining to let me go a-gunning for this afternoon.

Though I have been much to blame in the present case, yet I think it but just that Mr. Twining should bear his part.

I can imagine nothing more lovely than the sight of the delicate creepers attached to the tall stems of these palms and twining up to their very crests.

SEA Soft soft wind, from out the sweet south sliding, Waft thy silver cloud webs athwart the summer sea; Thin thin threads of mist on dewy fingers twining Weave a veil of dappled gauze to shade my babe and me.

And twining his arms round Nizza, notwithstanding her shrieks and resistance, he bore her away.

The peak was still in sunlight, and suddenly, half way down, a band of roseate clouds, twining and changing like a choir of Bacchantes, soared around the western edge and hung poised above the unillumined forests at the mountain-base; light as air they came and went and faded away, ghostly, after their work of momentary beauty was done.

A glorious band, gathering, twining, shooting past each other,jousting, tilting,with blazing banners, and a field broader than that of the "Cloth of Gold"; for this reached to and mingled with the cloudsyea, tinted them with flame-color and roses,and garlanded the earth with crimson blossoms that nestled among her forests on the far-off horizon.

A great green cable had writhed across the big wire enclosures of the giant hens' run, and flung twining leaf stems about two outstanding pines.

It is twining the rack with flowers; and hanging a man with a cord of gold.

And now, my dear friend, where shall I sit down, that I may enchant my sight by gazing on the twining plants, which seem to remind me of the graceful shape of my beloved? MÁ[T.]HAVYA.

Receive it back, as the beautiful twining-plant receives again its blossom in token of its reunion with the spring.

* CREEPERS AND CLIMBERS The CLIMBING, and TWINING SHRUBS offer a numerous family, highly deserving of cultivation, the following being a few of the most desirable.

The PASSION FLOWER, Passiflora, is a very large family of twining shrubs, many of them really beautiful, and generally of easy cultivation, this country being of the same temperature with their indigenous localities.

This is the time to make layers of Honeysuckle, Bauhinia, and other climbing and twining shrubs.

" "Have you not my love, my confidence, my fondest, warmest esteem?" exclaimed Percy, impetuously, and twining his arm, as in fondness he often did, around his brother's neck.

This I sat engaged in guessing, strange similitude confessing, 'Twixt this fowl, whose goggle-eyes glared on me from above my door, And a chap with long legs twining, whom I'd often seen reclining On the Treasury Bench's lining, Irish anguish gloating o'er; This same chap with long legs twining Irish anguish chuckling o'er, Tories christened, "Brave BALFOUR." Then methought the air grew denser.

This I sat engaged in guessing, strange similitude confessing, 'Twixt this fowl, whose goggle-eyes glared on me from above my door, And a chap with long legs twining, whom I'd often seen reclining On the Treasury Bench's lining, Irish anguish gloating o'er; This same chap with long legs twining Irish anguish chuckling o'er, Tories christened, "Brave BALFOUR." Then methought the air grew denser.