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honored by the poets, than the more luxuriant Roses. It 

 is usually coupled with the European Woodbine, as the Lily 

 with the Rose, etc. 



" Shenstone, in describing the delights of a country 

 Avalk, after long confinement in sickness, makes particular 

 mention of the fragrant pair." 



« Come gentle air ! and while the thickets bloom, 

 Convey the Jasmine's breath divine ; 

 Convey tlie Woodbine's ricii perfume, 

 Nor spare the sweet-leaved Eglantine." 



"The Eglantine boasts that even in winter she has 

 beauty." 



" Though of both leaf and flower bereft, 

 Some ornaments to me are left — 

 Rich store of scarlet liips are mine." 



*' Keats alludes more than once to the sweet perfume 

 of the Eglantine, when moist, with rain or dew." 



" Its sides I'll plant with dew-sweet Eglantine 

 And Honeysuckles full of clear bee wine" 



The Double Yellow Provence Rose is sujDposed to have 

 had its origin from the Austrian Brier. It is an old inhab- 

 itant of some gardens, but a very shy bloomer, showing 

 its flowers very sparingly, and, some years, none. We 

 have seen the bushes bending with their load of flowers. 

 They are large, very double, of a pale-yellow. On account 

 of its peculiar habits, it is not worth its room in the gar- 

 den. Copper Austrian " is a very singular-looking Rose, 

 blooming well in this climate, is of a coppery-red, and the 

 outside inclining to pale-yellow, or sulpliur." It has single 

 flowers, but they are truly beautiful. The Yellow Harri- 

 son Rose was considered a great acquisition, a few years 

 since, but this is now entirely eclipsed by the Persian 

 Yellow. Its flowers are more double, and of a more bril- 

 liant yellow, than the Harrison ; and this is the only hardy 



