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Eosa albo. Natural Order: Rosacece — Rose Family. 



I RMANY produces, more extensively perhaps than an}' other- 

 tountrv, the Rosa alba, or White Rose, a shrub growing 

 Irom six to seven feet high. Its flowers are usually pure 

 white, though sometimes delicately tinted with a blush. The 

 White Rose has been selected as a symbol of secrecy, as 

 the old Latin phrase 5///' rosa signifies under the rose, or 

 '^i,^', secietU . and Booth says it was so considered by the ancients, who 

 •aw,*^3 hunt; It up at their entertainments, as a token that anything there 

 rfVit '^'^'^ "'^'^ "o*^ to be divulged. The flowers are very fragrant, and 



'' blo(jm in clustc 



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A SECRET in his mouth, 



Is like a wild bird put in a cage; 

 W'hose door no sooner opens, but 'tis 



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■JTO our calm today its ghost comes gliding- 

 Known all too late! 

 Take from my liand its emblem, and the emblen- 

 Of our strange fate. 



silence 



.Silence! its pale lips say; the snow-whil 



Of yon sad stone. 

 Vet — lingering joy — the sharers, even of silence, 



Are not alone ! —Ho-.oard Glyndon. 



