Alexandria Gazette

THE PRAIRIE FLOWERS—One of
the prettiest signs I have yet seen
betoken the West are the flowers
the paths I have spoken near
now and been by a to Persians
whole, of their glory and vogue
and were I to go to a land a
The great who so to da
the Great Design of nature
I have yet attempted to do a wrong
would less be has me to
stars of Heaven, and w, w
reverence may I ask. What Pra
erie without His flowers is the
boundless and then l
rie to, is but boundless a ba
how in chn et en ase
mfniyo s, ace a be sw ei
with the stuso I ae I ian
more bduthu to ste Prairie
with wrs-pg
and gorgeous mass of t tes
vastness innate yet
er Larden, and a garden of wild to s
Prairie morning ad shmria
to my eye more attract y
I have seen in Pennsylvania gates
the best for. Fry whor v
dusty un fom
ting from the Prairie erhs
fun ahd ongened OT
the oceanfera temps, giving age
and rolling to ad to Kers w
grass waves the breeze de
In the midst of all this, s goust o
sy surface to the land o mir ant
diulem of a qun, towns of
bue and brmsog t La
admiration upon as o ho
self would have ga in wodr
the borders af the Prairie tos
aad from the centre to og
are seen almost every good n con
ture.
mighty scene, with vahed eanty g
Seen too together mx
flower, changing ise-hoes
There is the Bellflower, or Praues
to a yellow hun, of ha te2a
times the beauty oi on gotgeons
flower. There is in coe m
with the lightropn a maget foad
the language, hor the di-ste ane
an nototams, and eangne
flowers, bu amagetwad,—y-
is all the name I have heard. This ap
Western companions call a r,m
priate, for they point ther feates
As points the needle to the goreses
four cardinal point-.
round ther pient stocks-see
A thousand tiny branches spring usa
With fine libations gvt gas it mote
flowers, leaves and blossoms at side
nice and exquisite finish et wepo
that distinguishes the snalley de
works of the Creator -N i E
F every variety, nearly x cweo