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ROSE. 



Rosa. 



Welsh, Rhos, Breila. French, Rose. German, Rose. Dutch, 

 Rooze-bloom. Italian, Rosa. Spanish, Rosa. Illyric, 

 Rusa, Ruxica, Ruseja. Polish, Roza. Arabic, Werd. 



NATURAL. 



Icosandria. Rosacece. 



Polygynia. Rosece. 



" How much of memory dwells amidst thy bloom 



Rose ! ever wearing beauty for thy dower ! 

 The bridal-day the festival the tomb 

 Thou hast thy part in each, thou stateliest flower. 

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Rose, for the banquet gathered, and the bier, 

 Rose ! coloured now by human bliss and pain ; 



Surely, where death is not nor pain, nor fear, 

 Yet I may meet thee, joy's own flower, again !" 



says Mrs. Hemans, alluding to the different uses to 

 which the ancients applied this flower ; and yet one 

 more might have been added, for like the moderns 

 the Greeks and Romans employed it to soothe pain, 

 and alleviate illness. In the days of Anacreon : 



" The rose distilled a healing balm 

 The beating pulse of pain to calm," 



just as it did when Gerarde enumerated a list of its 

 virtues a list so long that I should fear to overstep 

 my limits were I to do more than give the general 



