THE POMPON ROSE. 



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THE rO.AlPON ROSE (/e. M. A^w/^;//^).- Loveliness. 



LOVKI.IXESS or Gracefulness, which is the great charm . 

 of earh' childhood, forms the principal attraction of the 

 Pompon Rose. 



THE POTATO {Solannm tubcrosiun). — Benevolence. 



The Potato is alike esteemed by the rich and the poor. 

 It is a luxury to the former, and constitutes a large part 

 of the food of the latter. It is a food which escapes the 

 greediness of the monopolist, who, because the tubers will 

 not keep well, so as to h^ good for food, longer than from the 

 ripening of one crop to the planting of another, cannot w^ith- 

 hold it as he may do corn. Like true charity, it is an 

 unassuming plant, hiding its treasures in the earth, and pre- 

 paring itself for our use, with very little effort on our part 

 to cultivate it. America has supplied us with this root, which 

 for ever has banished from Europe that most frightful of 

 plagues, famine. How important it is to the inhabitants of 

 the United Kingdom, those know who remember the failure 

 of the crops in Ireland in 1846 or 1847. Sir Walter Raleigh 

 is believed to have been the means of its importation into 

 England. 



THh: PRIMROSE. {Pyimitla 77//^^m-).— EARLY YOUTIL 



Burns says, ''The Primrose 1 will pu', the firstling of the 

 \'ear," which, in truth, it is, when we speak of the wild c 

 flowers (){ our native country ; and it ])i()claims to us thai y\ 



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