J34 ICOSANDKIA. 



Of all the ornamental plants that grow, there is 

 none of such universal admiration as thisj the name 

 is even too remote for the fanciful exercise of deriva- 

 tion. Poets and Moralists have alike recourse to it : 

 Love, Youth, and Beauty with all its charms, by turns 

 find apt emblems in the Rose. 



Go, lovely Rose, 

 Tell her that wastes her time and me, 



That now she knows, 

 When I resemble her to thee. 

 How sweet and fair she seems to be. 



Then die, that she 

 The common fate of all things rare 



May read in thee ; 

 How small a part of time they share, 

 That are so wondrous sweet and fair. 



British F hints of this Order, 



Botar.ical Generic Names. Common Names. 



1 COMARUM 1 MaRSHLOCKS 



2 Dry AS 1 AvENs 



the city lost its importance ; and a fragrant Rose that blos- 

 somed twice a year was all that was left in the Augustan age, 

 to give it note with those who had reduced it to vassalage ; yet, 

 after a lapse of more than two thousand years, its magnificent 

 ruins still remain to shew, that it once deserved higher com- 

 mendation. 



