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AHLIA. . Class 19,. Order:. Named in honour of, a Swedish botanist. A mountain flower of South America, recently become very fashionable among

the florists of the United States, who vie

with each other in the number and beauty

of the different varieties which they cultivate, and which form the chief ornament of all our horticultural exhibitions.

FOR EVER THINE.

Yes! still I love thee:—Time, who sets His signet on my brow; And dims my sunken eye, forgets

The heart he could not bow; Where love, that cannot perish, grows For one, alas! that little knows

How love may sometimes last ;

Like sunshine wasting in the skies,

When clouds are overcast.

The dew-drop hanging o’er the rose, Within its robe of light, Can never touch a leaf that blows, Though seeming to the sight; And yet it still will linger there, Like hopeless love without despair,— A snow-drop in the sun! A moment finely exquisite, Alas! but only one.