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liOSa DaillOSCCUa. Natural Okdek: RosacecE — Rose Family. 



AMASCUS, a city one of the most ancient and renowned 



in Syria, gives its name to this particular variety of Rose, 



%vhich blooms monthly, and, under favorable circumstances, 



at all seasons. The Rose is said to have been the favorite 



^tlower of Venus, and was formerh' white, until she, being in 



haste to assist her dving lover, pierced her foot with a thorn, and 



Pp some of the blood falling on it changed its color from white to red. It 



!?»?' grows about four feet high, most of the monthly sorts being dwarfish 



in habit. 



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NTO the ground she cast lier modest eye, 



And ever and anon, with rosy red, 

 • bashful blush her snowy cheeks did dye. 



T F Jove w 

 A queen 



ould give the leaty bowers 

 for all their world of flowers, 

 ould be the choice of Jove, 

 the queen of every grove. 



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 And 



"IITE are blushing roses. 



Bending with our fulness, 



'Midst our close-capp'd .sister buds, 



Warming the green coolness. 



Of all flowers. 



r^ IVE me the eloquent cheek 

 ^-^ Where blushes burn and die 

 Like time, its changes speak 

 The spirit's purity. 



Metliinks a rose is best 



It is the very emblem of a maid. 

 For when the west wind courts her gently 

 How modestly she blows, and paints the su 

 With her chaste blushes! 



—Benumoiit a},d Fh-lcli,-r. 



Whatsoe'er of beauty 



Yearns and yet reposes,. 



Blush, and bosom, and sweet breath, 



Took a shape in roses. 



—Leigh HiDlt. 



ntly to the roses yield, 

 ovely cheek they struggling vie,' 

 (Who would not strive upon so sweet a field 



To win the mastery.^) 

 And thoughts are in thy speaking eyes revear< 

 Pure as the fount the prophet's rod unseal'd. 

 -Hoffmn,,. 



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