Hose-Austvian. 
Rosa eglanteria. Narurat Orver: Rosacee—Rose Family. 
Ss OSES, as well as flowers of all other kinds, are very much culti- 
2, vated by the flower-loving people of Germany, of which land 
this Rose is a native. The flowers are of a brilliant yellow, 
\ ; and soon fall, but the green leaves of the bush are very fragrant. 
», It is said that the essential oil, attar or otto of Roses, was 
first discovered by Nur Jehan, better known as Nur Mahal 
ays (“light of the harem”), wife of Jehanghir, Moghul emperor of Hin- 
acy NZ .doostan, 1605-27. She observed an oily substance floating on a vessel of 
= ‘ Rose-water that had been distilled by the heat of the sun. The attar is 
ane very fragrant, being so concentrated that one drop will perfume a whole 
yy dressing-case; and so expensive that an ounce will cost about one hun- 
SN Y= dred dollars, requiring nearly half a million of average Roses for its 
) production. 
jrouchiness. 
HAT loveliness ever in motion, which plays, 
Like the light upon autumn’s soft, shadowy days, : 
Now here, and now there, giving warmth as it flies, 
From the lips to the cheeks. from the cheek to the eyes. 
—Moore. 
SWEET, pale face! O lovely eyes of azure, 
In its abundance overflows the measure! 
Clear as the waters of a brook that run 
O graceful form, that cloudlike floatest on, 
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! With the soft, undulating gait of one 
O golden hair, that, like a miser’s treasure, Who moveth as if motion were a pleasure. 
—Longfellow. 
H! could you look into my heart, 
And watch your image there, 
You would own the sunny loveliness 
Affection makes it wear. —1/ys. Osgood. 
ER face right wondrous fair did seem to be, 
That her broad beauty’s beam great brightness threw 
i Through the dim shade, that all men might it see. 
ER dress, her shape, her matchless grace, 
Were all observed, as well as heav’nly face; 
With such peerless majesty she stands. 
— Spenser. —Dryden. 
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