190 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
TUB EROSE. 
DANGEROUS PLEASURES. 
This superb child of the East, to which Linneus 
gave by way of eminence the epithet Polianthus, 
from two Greek words signifying a town and a 
flower, because it is generally cultivated and sold in 
towns, was first brought from Persia to France in 
1632. It was then but single, and double flowers 
were not produced till long afterwards by a skilful 
florist of Leyden, named Lecour. It has since 
spread over all the world. In Russia, indeed, it 
flowers only for sovereigns and the great ; but it 
has become naturalized in Peru, where it grows 
without culture, and unites with the glowing 
nasturtium to adorn the bosom of the American 
beauty. 
The flower of the Tuberose, which grows on the 
top of a very tall, slender stem, is of a white colour, 
sometimes tinged with a blush of pink. Its perfume 
is delicious, rich, and powerful. If you would 
