ON THE ROSE. 



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List II. has only one species of plants grown in each hed. 



Anagalis monelli 

 Anagalis grandiftora 

 Scarlet geraniums 

 Delphinium grandiflora 

 Verbena Drummondii 

 Double white Antirrhinium 

 Verbena melindris 

 Calceolaria viscossissima 

 Fuchsia Thomsonia 

 Verbena Tweediana 

 Double scarlet Lychnis 

 Lobelia lutea 

 Fuchsia globosa 

 Petunia phyllacaulis 

 Antirrhinium major 

 Petunia phcenicea 



Lantana Sellowi 

 Verbena arranana 

 Crassula coccinea 

 OEnothera macrapa 

 CEnothera Drumondii 

 CEnothera missouriensis 

 Calceolaria majori 

 Esholtzia crocea 

 Heliotropium peruvianum 

 Petunia intermedia 

 Delphinum crinensis 

 Phlox cordata 

 Aster amelloides 

 Hydrangeas 

 CEnothera speciosa 

 Calceolaria intcgrifolia. 



ARTICLE IX. 



REMARKS ON THE ROSE. 



Continued from page 180. 



Fabulous authors also account for the delicious perfume of the 

 rose, by telling us that Love, in a feast of Olympus, in the midst 

 of the gaiety of a light and lively dance, overthrew, with a stroke 

 of his wing, a cup of nectar, which precious liquor falling on the 

 rose, embalmed it with that heavenly fragrance which it still re - 

 tains. 



Mythological writers also relate that Rhodante, queen of Co- 

 jrinth, to avoid the pursuit of her lovers, fled to the temple of 

 Diana to conceal herself; but being besieged by lovers, and ob- 

 liged to appear, she called on the people for assistance, who, on 

 beholding her beauty, threw down the statue of Diana, and de- 

 clared her to be the goddess of the temple ; upon which Apollo 

 changed her into a rose. 



The first rose ever seen was said to have been given by the 

 god of love to Harpocrates, the god of silence, to engage him 

 not to divulge the amours of his mother Venus ; and from hence 

 the ancients made it a symbol of silence, and it became a custom 

 to place a rose above their heads in their banquetting rooms, in 

 order to banish restraint, as nothing there said would be repeated 



