

30 THE ROSE. 
Another poet makes the Rose to say: 
“Twas from Love I borrowed, too, 
My sweet perfume, my purple hue 
And by another poet we are indebted to our first 
mother for colored Roses: 
“ As erst, in Eden's blissful bowers, 
ee Eve cease her countless flowers, 

She indlced with eye said beamed delight: 
Its leaves she kissed, and str: sine it drew 
From beauty’s lip the vermil hu 
Rosa Damascena, Damask Rose, transported 
from Damascus to Europe by the Crusaders, has 
that delicious odour so peculiar to the species, 
having a succession of blooms. The monthly 
Damask is a bright pink, blooming in clusters, 
and repeatedly during the season, if in rich soil, 
and is a general favorite. Painted Damask has 
the quality indicated by its name, but not so well 
painted as the old York and Lancaster (R. Gal- 
lica) which is often striped, and frequently one 
half pink and the other half white, thus according 
with the tradition, that, on the extinction of the 
feud between the houses of York and Lancaster, 
this rose sprung up, with one side pink, and the 
other white. 


