Auricnia, 
Primula auvicula. Naturar Orver: Primulacee— Primrose Family. 
 UROPE gave birth to this flower. It is a native of the Alps, 
N where its fragrant and pure blossoms are one of Nature’s 
UU XUTIX “first tributes to spring. It is greatly admired as an ornament 
to our gardens, and is said to bloom best when favored with a 
S24, northern aspect. Its name is derived from two Latin words: 
we Primula, from primus, first, because it blossoms so early in the 
spring, and Auricula, from its ear-shaped leaves. The species mostly 
cultivated are the Cowslip Primrose, a perennial from Great Britain, 
with yellow flowers; the purple, found on the mountains of Nepaul, 
Asia; the double-cupped, native of Austria; and the common Primrose 
of Europe. 
Painting. 
LL that imagination’s power could trace, 
Breath’d in the pencil’s imitative grace; 
O’er all the canvas, form, and soul, and feeling, 
That wondrous art infus’d with power of life; 
Portray’d each pulse, each passion’s might revealing; 
Sorrow and joy, life, hatred, fear and strife. 
F —lrom the Spanish, 
HEN first from love, in Nature’s bowers, RE yet thy pencil tries her nicer toils, 
Did Painting learn her fairy skill, Or on thy palette lie the blended oils, 
And cull the hues of loveliest flowers, Thy careless chalk has half achieved thy art, 
To picture woman lovelier still. —agoove. And her just image makes Cleora start. 
—Tickell. 
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—Rowe. Pp fy ; 
caer ee ers aint, thou best of painters, 
TIS in life as ’tis in painting: : ; 
: ; The mistress of my heart. 
Much may’ ne right, yet much be wanting. —Wm. Hay’s Trans. Anacreon (Greek). 
—P rr. 
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Or youthful poets fancy when they love? 
OME! the colors and the ground prepare: 
Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; 
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 
—Pope. 
she not more than painting can express, OME, thou best of painters 
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Prince of the Rhodian art; 
