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lilosa CglautCVta. Natural Order: Rosaccce — Rose Family. 



O^ES, as well as flowers of all other kinds, are very much culti- 

 \ ated by the flower-loviiiy people of Germany, of which land 

 K-C tliis Rose is a nati\'e. The flowers are of a brilliant yellow, 

 and soon fall, but the green lea\'es of the bush are very fragrant. 

 ^ It is said that the essential oil, attar or otto of Roses, was 

 first discovered by Nur Jehan, better known as Nur Mahal 

 ("light of the harem"), wife of Jehanghir, Moghul emperor of Hin- 

 doostan, 1605-27. She observed an oily substance floating on a vessel of 

 Rose-water that had been distilled by the heat of the sun. The attar is 

 very fragrant, being so concentrated that one drop will perfume a whole 

 dressing-case; and so expensive that an ounce will cost about one hun- 

 dred dollars, requiring nearly half a million of average Roses for its 

 production. 



'ipHAT loveliness ever in motion, which plays, 

 ^ Like the light upon autumn's soft, shadowy days, 

 Now here, and now there, giving warmth as it flies. 

 From the lips to the checks, from the cheek to the eyes 



r\ .SWEET, pale face! O lovely eyes of : 



^ Clear as the waters of a brook that run 



Limpid and laughing in the summer sui 



O s/oldcn hair, that, like a miser's treasure, 



AH 1 could you look i 



^ And watch your ii 



You would own tlie -i 



Affection makes it 1 



ITER face right w 

 fl That her broad b 



ndrous fair did 



to be, 



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ER dress, her shape, her matchless gr.ace, 

 beauty's beam gi-eat brightness threw * ^ Were all observed, as well as heav'nly face 

 hade, that all men might it see. With such peerless majesty she stands. 



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