The varieties and specimens made a beautiful, but not very extensive array.

There was one flower that not only attracted especial admiration, but invited a pleasant train of thoughts to my own mind.

It was one of those old favorites to which the common people of all countries, who speak our mother tongue, love to give an inalienable English name-- The Hollyhock.

It is one of the flowers of the people, which the pedantic Latinists have left untouched in homely Saxon, because the people would have none of their long-winded and heartless appellations.

Having dwelt briefly upon the honor that Divine Providence confers upon human genius and labor, in letting them impress their finger-marks so distinctly upon the features and functions of the earth, and upon the forms of animal life, it may be a profitable recurrence to the same line of thought to notice what that same genius and labor have wrought upon the structure and face of this familiar flower.