ELglantine. 
Rosa rubiginosa. Narurat Orver: Rosacea— Rose Family. 
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cyfi$y. ripe is orange red. 
Home. 
OME is the sphere of harmony and peace, 
The spot where angels find a resting place, 
When, bearing blessings, they descend to earth. 
—Mrs. Hale. 
I/TSIS sweet to hear the watchdog’s honest bark OME is the resort 
Bay deep-mouth’d welcome as we draw near home; Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, 
’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Supporting and supported, polish’d friends 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come. And dear relations mingle into bliss. 
—Byron. 
LOVE that dear old home! my mother lived there 
Her first sweet married years, and last sad widow’d ones. 
The sunlight there seems to me brighter far 
Than wheresoever else. I know the forms 
Of every tree and mountain, hill and dell; 
Its waters gurgle like a tongue I know;— 
\ It is my home. —Mrs. Frances K, Butler. 
*; USTY ROSE is the literal meaning of the Latin botanical name 
of this shrubby plant, the epithet rusty being applied because of 
¥<¢ the parasitic fungus that attaches to it. Familiarly known as 
the Sweetbrier, or Eglantine, it is one of our sweetest native 
— CE op Toses, so simple and unpretending that it has a home in the 
SU) WZ, ““s=l hearts of all lovers of plants. A golden Eglantine, a violet 
ys and marigold constituted the three prizes at the Floral Games of Tou- 
\f louse, the most ancient in Europe, which still survive, with the addition 
of four other prizes, after the lapse of more than four hundred years. 
Planted beneath our windows and around our doors, it freights the 
atmosphere with its odor, and gratifies the eye with its delicate blos- 
soms. There are many varieties cultivated, some of which are double. 
Its stem is armed with stout thorns, and the color of the berry when 
—Thompson. 
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