110 GAEDEN FLOWERS. 



Perla, which blooms all Europe over, and which 

 awakened feelings of deep emotion in Rich, 

 when he saw it flowering wild in Koordistan, 

 just as it did in the hedges whence he had 

 gathered it near his home. But we must 

 pause in the list of the sweetest of flowers, and 

 leave unnoticed many others, familiar to those 

 who, like Eve, tend the plants, as Milton de- 

 scribes our first mother as doing in earth's 

 fairest garden. 



" Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood 

 Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round 

 About her glowed ; oft stooping to support 

 Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay, 

 Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, 

 Hung drooping, unsustained." 



The rose is much cultivated both in Egypt 

 and Syria. It is in many parts of the Holy 

 Land found mid in abundance, yet it is not so 

 general as to render it an object of so frequent 

 reference as the myrtle, the palm, and the 

 olive, which are far more widely distributed 

 in that country. There exists, however, a 

 tradition that the name of Syria is a cor- 

 ruption of Suristan, the land of roses, which it 

 was once called, from the profusion of a species 

 of rose termed Suri, that grew in some part of 

 the land. 



Very beautiful yeUow roses have been found 

 flourishing among the ruins of Baalbec, and 

 the hills which lie on the road from Joppa to 

 Jerusalem, are still gay with the white or pink 

 rose. In the desert of St. John, the gardens of 

 the Httle village of that name abound with 



