THE DAMASK ROSE. 



DAMASK ROSE {Rosa Damascena). — BEAUTY Ever New. 



The varieties of the Damask Rose are numerous. They 

 are universal favourites. In May they begin and continue 

 to bloom until Autumn. In France some varieties are in 

 flower in every season of the year, whence they are called 

 Roses de Quatre-Saisons, and on that account are the suitable 

 emblem of Beauty Ever New. The Monthly Rose begins 

 first, and continues the latest, to bloom in England, and 

 therefore adequately supplies with us the place of the Rose 

 de Quatre-Saisons. It flowers until checked by frosts, and 

 if protected by glass, and aided by artificial heat, it will 

 yield us its bloom up to Christmas. 



DANDELION {Leontoden taraxacum). — ORACLE. 



The bright-hued Dandelion is known to all. It opens 

 its petals to the earliest rays of the sun, a peculiarity Elliott 

 has not forgotten to notice in enumerating " the wonders 

 of the lane," — 



" And here the sun-flower of the spring, 

 Burns bright in morning's beam." 



Moore alludes to its unfolding to the rays of the sun, and 

 closing when they are withdrawn or intercepted, — 



" She, enamoured of the sun, 

 At his departure hangs her head and weeps, 

 And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps 



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