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symbolic at once of the subtlest temptation, and 

 the kindest ministry to the earthly passion of the 

 human race. " Comfort me with apples, for I am 

 sick of love." 



20. Therefore I shall call the entire order of 

 these flowers ' Charites,' (Graces,) and they will 

 be divided into these five genera, Rosa, Persica, 

 Pomum, Rubra, and Fragaria. Which sequence 

 of names I do not think the young learner will 

 have difficulty in remembering ; nor in under- 

 standing why I distinguish the central group by 

 the fruit instead of the flower. And if he once 

 clearly master the structure and relations of 

 these five genera, he will have no difficulty in 

 attaching to them, in a satellitic or subordinate 

 manner, such inferior groups as that of the Silver- 

 weed, or the Tormentilla ; but all he will have 

 to learn by heart and rote, will be these six 

 names ; the Greek Master-name, Charites, and 

 the five generic names, in each case belonging 

 to plants, as he will soon find, of extreme per- 

 sonal interest to him. 



21. I have used the word ' Order ' as the name 

 of our widest groups, in preference to ' Class,' 

 because these widest groups will not always in- 

 clude flowers like each other in form, or equal to 

 each other in vegetative rank ; but they will be 



