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creative imagination of the poet thus pleasing!}^ accounts for this 

 Rose having chid itself in a mossy garment. 



' The angel of the flowers, cue day, 

 Beneath a Rose-tree sleeping lay. 

 That spirit— to whose charge is given, 

 To bathe young buds in dews from heaven. 

 Awakening from his light repose, — 

 '•' O, fondest object of my care, 

 Still fairest found where all are fair, 

 For the sweet shade thou'st given to me. 

 Ask what thou wilt, 'tis granted thee." 

 " Then," said the Rose, with deepen'd glow, 

 " On me another grace bestow 

 The spirit paused in silent thought, 

 What grace was there that flower had not? 

 'Twas but a moment — o'er the Rose 

 A A'eil of moss the angel throws. 

 And, robed in nature's simplest weed, 

 Can there a flower that Rose exceed ? ' 



The author of a French pictured work on Roses seems displeased 

 at our claimmg the Moss Rose as originating in this country, but 

 Madame de Genlis tells us that, during her first visit to England, she 

 saw Moss Roses for the first time, and that she took to Paris a 

 Moss Rose-tree, which was the first that had been to that city ; and 

 she says, in 1810, ' the cultivation of this superb fiower is not yet 

 known in France.' The perpetual-flowering varieties of this class 

 are mostly very fragrant. 



The GixxAMOX, or May Rose [Rom Cinnamomea). — This agree- 

 ably perfumed Rose, which opens its small blossoms in our gardens 

 about the end of May, is a native of Xice, in the South of France, 

 and has been common in our pleasure-grounds for many ages, as 

 Gerard tells us, in 1597, that it was then cultivated m this country, 

 both m its single and double state. 



It is a favourite ^itli the fair, as it may be worn in the bosom 

 longer than any other Rose, without fading, whilst its diminutive 

 size and red colour, together with a pleasant perfume, adapt it well 

 to fill the place of a brooch. 



' And each inconstant breeze that blows, 

 Steals essence fi'om the musky Rose.' 



The McsK Rose {Rosa moscliata). — This species of Rose owes 

 its name to the fine musky odour which its numerous white 

 blossoms exhale during the autumnal months. It is a native of 

 Xorthern Africa, and grows wild in the hedges and thickets in the 

 kingdom of Tunis ; and the Tunisians cultivate it also for the 



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