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to most of my readers, and the assertion which I have made 

 asks no further proof. 



The excellent beauty of the Rose has not only been ap- 

 preciated in all times {semper), but in all climes. 



2. Ubique^ — Born in the East, it has been diffused, like 

 the sunlight, over all the world. A flower, writes Pliny, 

 known to all nations equally with wine, myrtle, and oil. It 

 is found in every quarter of the globe — on glaciers, in deserts, 

 on mountains, in marshes, in forests, in valleys, and on 

 plains. The Esquimaux, as Boitard tells us in his interest- 

 ing Monographie de la Rose, adorn their hair and their 

 raiment of deer and seal skin with the beautiful blossoms 

 of the Rosa nitida, which grows abundantly under their 

 stunted shrubs. The Creoles of Georgia twine the white 

 flowers of Rosa laevigata among their sable locks, plucking 

 them from the lower branches of climbing plants, which at- 



* I cannot write this word without recording an anecdote which has not, I 

 believe, been published, but which well deserves to be. It was told to me by 

 an artillery officer, that a gentleman, dining at the mess, Woolwich, mistook 

 the Latin trisyllable Ubique on the regimental plate for a French dissyllable, 

 and delighted the company by exclaiming, "Ubique! Where's Ubique?— 

 never heard of that battle!" A veiy similar question was put to myself, 

 showing to a young friend, among some old curiosities, a medal which had been 

 given to my grandfather at school, and on which were engraved his initials, the 

 date, and the word " Merenti "— " What regiment did he seii'e in ? " 



