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Show [ 152 ) 0' er :lilent floods, white hills, and glittering meads, Six rival fwains the playful beauty leads, 140 Chi es with her dulcet voice the tardy Spring, Bids flumbering Zephyr il:retch his folded wing, Wakes the hoarfe Cuckoo in his gloomy cave, And calls the wondering Dormoufe from his grave, Bids the mute Redbreafl: cheer the budding grove, I 45 And plaintive Ringdove tune her notes to love. Spring! with thy own fweet fmile and tuneful tongue, Delighted BELLis calls her infant throng. Each on his reed afiride, the Cherub-train Watch her kind looks, and circle o'er the plain ; you deftroy the new bulb; and that Lily of the Valley, Convallaria, will produce many more feeds, and ripen them, if the roots be crowded in a garden-pot, fo as to prevent them from producing many bulbs, Vol. VI. p. 120. It is probable either of thefe methods may fucceed with thefe and other bulbous-rooted plants, as fnowdrops, and might render their cultivation profitable in this climate. The root of the afphotlelus ramofus, branchy afphodel, is ufed to feed fwine in France; the fiarch is obtained from the :-~lftromeria liCla. Memoires d'Agricult. Bellis prolifera. l. 148. Hen and chicken Daify; in this beautiful monfier not only the impletion or doubling of the petals takes place, as dcfcribed in the note on Alcea ; but a numerous circlet of lefs flowers on peduncles, or footftalks, rife from the fides of the calyx, and furround the prolifcrous parent. The fame occurs in Calendula marigold; in Heracium, hawk-weed; and in Scabiofa, Scabious. Phil. Botan. p: 82. [ 153 J Now with young wonder touch the fliding fnail, Admire his eye-tipp' d horns, and painted mail ; Chafe with quick fl:ep, and eager arms outfpread, The paufing Butterfly from mead to n1ead; Or twine green oziers with the fragrant gale, The azure harebel, and the primrofe pale, Join hand in hand, and in proceffion gay Adorn with votive wreaths the fhrine of May. -So moves the Goddefs to the Idalian groves, And leads her gold-hair' d family of Loves. Thefe, from the flaming furnace, fl:rong and bold Pour the red fl:eel in many a fandy mould ; On tinkling anvils (with V ulcanian art), Turn with hot tongs, and forge the dreadful dart ; I 55 t6o Cfhe fragra 11t Gale. I. I 55· The buds of the Myrica Gale poffefs an agr~eable ~ro. matic fragrance, and might be worth attending to as an article of th_e Matena ~e~tca. Mr. Sparman fufpe8.s, that the green wax-ltke fubftance, with whtch at certam ttmes of the year the berries of the Myrica cerifera, or candle-berry M~rtle, are cover~d, are depoflted there by infects. It is ufed by the inhabitants for maktng candles, whtch he fays burn rather better than thofe made of tallow. Voyage to the_ Cape, V. I. P· 345 . Du Halde gives an account of a white wax made by fmall t~fetts r~und the branches of a tree in China in great quantity, which is there colleCted lor medtcal and economical purpofes. The tree is called Tong-din. Defcrip. ofChina. Vol. I. P· 230. X |
