Till morning dawn and Lucifer withdraw
    His beamy chariot, let not the loud bell
    Call forth thy negroes from their rushy couch: 
    And ere the sun with mid-day fervor glow,
    When every broom-bush opes her yellow flower,
    Let thy black laborers from their toil desist: 
    Nor till the broom her every petal lock,
    Let the loud bell recal them to the hoe,
    But when the jalap her bright tint displays,
    When the solanum fills her cup with dew,
    And crickets, snakes and lizards gin their coil,
    Let them find shelter in their cane-thatched huts.

Sugar Cane.[107]

I shall here give (from Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Gardening) the form of a flower dial.  It may be interesting to many of my readers:—­

’Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours
As they floated in light away
By the opening and the folding flowers
That laugh to the summer day.[108]

Mr. Hemans.

A FLOWER DIAL.

TIME OF OPENING.
                            [109] h. m. 
YELLOW GOAT’S BEARD T.P. 3 5
LATE FLOWERING DANDELION Leon.S. 4 0
BRISTLY HELMINTHIA H.B. 4 5
ALPINE BORKHAUSIA B.A. 4 5
WILD SUCCORY C.I. 4 5
NAKED STALKED POPPY P.N. 5 0
COPPER COLOURED DAY LILY H.F. 5 0
SMOOTH SOW THISTLE S.L. 5 0
ALPINE AGATHYRSUS Ag.A. 5 0
SMALL BIND WEED Con.A. 5 6
COMMON NIPPLE WORT L.C. 5 6
COMMON DANDELION L.T. 5 6
SPORTED ACHYROPHORUS A.M. 6 7
WHITE WATER LILY N.A. 7 0
GARDEN LETTUCE Lec.S. 7 0
AFRICAN MARIGOLD T.E. 7 0
COMMON PIMPERNEL A.A. 7 8
MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED H.P. 8 0
PROLIFEROUS PINK D.P. 8 0
FIELD MARIGOLD Cal.A. 9 0
PURPLE SANDWORT A.P. 9 10
SMALL PURSLANE P.O. 9 10
CREEPING MALLOW M.C. 9 10
CHICKWEED S.M. 9 10

TIME OF CLOSING.
                                  h. m. 
HELMINTHIA ECHIOIDES B.H. 12 0
AGATHYRSUS ALPINUS A.B. 12 0
BORKHAUSIA ALPINA A.B. 12 0
LEONTODON SEROTINUS L.D. 12 0
MALVA CAROLINIANA C.M. 12 1
DAINTHUS PROLIFER P.P. 1 0
HIERACIUM PILOSELLA M.H. 0 2
ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS S.P. 2 3
ARENARIA PURPUREA P.S. 2 4
CALENDULA ARVENSIS F.M. 3 0
TACETES ERECTA A.M. 3 3
CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS S.B. 4 0
ACHYROPHORUS MACULATUS S.A. 4 5
NYMPHAEA ALBA W.W.B. 5 0
PAPAVER NUDICAULE N.P. 7 0
HEMEROCALLIS FULVA C.D.L. 7 0
CICHORIUM INTYBUS W.S. 8 9
TRAGOPOGON PRATENSIS Y.G.B. 9 10
STELLARIA MEDIA C. 9 10
LAPSANA COMMUNIS C.N. 10 0
LACTUCA SATIVA G.L. 10 0
SONCHUS LAEVIS S.T. 11 10
PORTULACA OLERACEA S.P. 11 12