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well, therefore, for us to take care net to use 

 German Sallad-Oil, which, however, can with 

 great difficulty be distinguished from oil of olives. 

 379. PRIMROSE. -A beautiful little flower 

 of a pale yellow and delicate smell. It comes 

 very early in the spring ; and continues a good 

 while in bloom. Of the fibrous rooted flowers it 

 is the next to the Daisy in point of earliness. 

 It is an universal favourite ; and, in England, it 

 comes abundantly in woods, pastures and banks. 

 It is fierenniallike. the Cowslifi, and is propaga- 

 ted in the same manner. How beautiful a Long- 

 Island wood would look in Afiril, the ground be- 

 neath the trees being decked with Primroses ! 



380. RANUNCULUS. Is a flower of the 

 nature of the Anemone, which see. It is propa- 

 gated and cultivated in the same manner. These 

 two flowers are usually planted out in beds, 

 where they make a very fine show. 



381. RHODODENDRON. It never oc- 

 curred, perhaps, to any American to give this 

 line name to the laurel with a long narrow leaf 

 and great bunches of blue, pink, or white flow- 

 ers, the balls, or pods, containing which appear 

 ! he year before the flower. It is, however, a 

 beautiful shrub, and not less beautiful on account 

 of its frequently covering scores of acres of 

 rocky sides of hills, or on account of Englisk 

 Gardeners believing that it requires bog-earth 

 (though fetched from many miles distance, at 

 vast expense) to make it grow and blow ! 



382. ROSES. A volume larger than this 

 would not describe the differences in all the sorts of 

 this, which has for ages, been considered as the 

 Queen of Flowers, the excellences of which to 



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