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Reine de Belgique, large rosy lilac, very fine. 

 Riego. 



Saudeur panach6 or king of Hoses, most splendid rosy lilac, 

 elegantly ^triped with white. 

 Triomphe de Guerrin, splendid pale rose colour. 

 Thurette, deep small double dark violet, reftexed and vel- 

 vety, large rosy lilac. 



ARTICLE VII. 



REMARKS ON THE ROSE. 

 Continued from page 208. 



Oriana when confined a prisoner in a lofty tower, threw a wet 

 rose to her lover to express her grief and love ; and in the flo- 

 ral language of the East, presenting a rose-bud with thorns and 

 leaves, is understood to express both fear and hope ; and 

 •when returned reversed, it signifies, that you must neither 

 entertain fear or hope. If the thorns be taken off before it is 

 returned, then it expresses you have every thing to hope ; but 

 if the leaves be striped off, it gives the receiver to understand 

 that he has every thing to fear. The pronoun / is understood 

 by inclining the flower to the right, and the pronoun thou, by 

 inclining it to the left. 



The poet Bonnefons sent to the object of his love a nosegay 

 consisting of a white and a red rose, the one to indicate the pale- 

 ness of his complexion, caused by anxiety, and the other by its 

 carnation tint, was to express the flames of his heart. 



The flower which Philostratus dedicated to Cupid is made to 

 speak the language of love. We are told that some persons pass 

 through life without feeling the arrows of the young god ; and 

 we read of others who could not endure the sight and smell of 

 roses. Mary de Medicis, it is said, detested roses even in paint- 

 ings, and the knight of Guise fainted at the sight of a rose. These 

 strange aversions are unnatural, and the objects deserve our 

 pity. 



Man alone seems born sensible to the delights of perfumes, and 

 employs theml to give energy to his passions, for animals and 

 insects in general shun them. The beetle is said to have such 



