

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ROSE. 
charming little book of a French lady, 
7 Madame Louise Leneveux, is entitled Fleurs 
emblematiques. We extract from the work of this 
lady (less her graceful style), the mysterious 
language that has been applied to the different 
species and varieties of the Rose. 
A Rose—beauty. 
Beauty the most brilliant, like the Rose, lasts 
but for a day. 
The Wild Rose—simplicity. 
Simplicity of heart and manners, not simplicity 
of intellect. 
Hundred-leaved Rose, or double "Rose—the Graces that 
accompany the Muses. 
Without doubt, for the reason that when the 
painters and poets depict the Graces accompany- 


