THE ROSE ACACIA. 



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The same writer in his Irish Melodies, gives another state- 

 ment : 



" They tell us that-Love in his fairy bower, 

 Had two blush Roses, of birth divine ; 

 He sprinkled the one with a rainbow's shower, 

 But bathed the other with mantling wine. 



Soon did the buds, that drank of the floods 

 Distilled by the rainbow, decline and fade ; 



While those which the tide of ruby had dyed 

 All blushed into beauty, like thee, sweet maid!" 



THE ROSE ACACIA {Robinia hispidd).—Y.UKGh-^QY.. 



A HANDSOME shrub when grown in a sheltered situation. 

 The toilet has nothing of greater freshness, nor of greater 

 elegance, than the attire of this pretty shrub. Its inclining 

 attitude, its gay green, its beautiful rose-coloured branches, 

 which have the appearance of waving ribands, all give it the 

 appearance of a coquette arrayed in ball-room dress. 



THE HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE.— The Graces. 



When the three Graces are spoken of as being in attendance 

 on Venus and her Cupids, they are said to be crowned with 

 Myrtle ; when they accompany the Muses, they are repre- 

 sented as wearing wreaths of Roses. 



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