FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Swamp Pine. Pinus palustris.
Dedicated to St. Spiridion.
December 15.
St. Eusebius, Bp. of Vercelli, A. D. 371. St. Florence, or Flann, Abbot.
SEASONABLE.
There is a class of those who are said to “dearly love the lasses, oh?” by whom the verses below may be read without danger of their becoming worse.
A Winter Piece.
It was a winter’s evening, and fast came down the snow,
And keenly o’er the wide heath the bitter blast did blow;
When a damsel all forlorn, quite bewilder’d in her way,
Press’d her baby to her bosom, and sadly thus did say: