In a late Oration, by Z. Collins Lee, Esq., before the Horticultural Society Of West Chester, Pa., he regretted that, while the Lily of France, the Rose of Burgundy, the Shamrock and the Thistle, etc, were emblems of nations, with us, not one of the many beautiful productions of our soil is the badge of American freedom. Like the song which animates us in battle, he says, let us hereafter also point to some flower of our land which will meet us in the field, cheer us in absence, and delight us among strangers, and which, to the dying patriot's eye, shall revive the recollections of his home and country. He commends the subject to our fair country-women, who will present it as a gift from the beautiful to the brave, with which to return victorious or to return no more. "Botanicus," whom we strongly suspect to be the amiable and learned Dr. Darlington, suggests that the Kalmia - our indigenous American Laurel - be everywhere recognized as the emblem of our Great Republic, and worn as the cherished badge of a patriotic people, on all public occasions. The suggestion is not a bad one. Others have named the beautiful little early flower, the Epigaea; another, the Tulip Tree, or its flower, and the Rhododendron, but to all these may be urged some objection.

What say the ladies?