THE POMPON ROSE. 



THE POMPON ROSE {R. M. f^?;«/£?«2a).- Loveliness. 



Loveliness or Gracefulness, which is the great charm 

 of early childhood, forms the principal attraction of the 

 Pompon Rose. 



THE POTATO {Solamim tuberosum). — Benevolence. 



The Potato is alike esteemed by the rich and the poor. 

 It is a luxury to the former, and constitutes a large part 

 of the food of the latter. It is a food which escapes the 

 greediness of the monopolist, who, because the tubers will 

 not keep well, so as to be good for food, longer than from the 

 ripening of one crop to the planting of another, cannot with- 

 hold it as he may do corn. Like true charity, it is an 

 unassuming plant, hiding its treasures in the earth, and pre- 

 paring itself for our use, with very little effort on our part 

 to cultivate it. America has supplied us with this root, which 

 for ever has banished from Europe that most frightful of 

 plagues, famine. How important it is to the inhabitants of 

 the United Kingdom, those know who remember the failure 

 of the crops in Ireland in 1846 or 1847. Sir Walter Raleigh 

 is believed to have been the means of its importation ipto 

 England. 



THE PRIMROSE {Primula vulgaris).— Ekrin Youth. 



Burns says, " The Primrose I v/iU pu', the firstling of the 

 year," which, in truth, it is, when we ,speak of the wild 

 flowers of our native country ; and it proclaims to us that 



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