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MEZEREON. 
DESIRE TO PLÈASE. 
Mezereon, too, 
Though leafless, well attired, and thick beset 
With blushing wreaths, investing every spray. 
COWPER. 
The re are some of our cultivated flowers with which 
we naturally associate ideas of wealth and elegance; 
whilst others, and araongst these we number some of 
the most beautiful, suggest thoughts of humble life, 
and the neat cottage gardens in which we hâve so 
often seen them flourishing. Thus the Cabbage-Rose, 
(may I use the homely appellation, as I speak of 
cottage gardens?) the Moss-Rose, and the Maiden’s 
Blush, those real Roses, as I am apt to call them, to 
distinguish them from the crowd of varieties which 
swell the modem floral list, bloom there in perfection, 
with their more délicate sister, the China Rose, who, 
mingling with Jasmine and Honeysuckle, canopies many 
a humble doorway. I love to see these cottages 
