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{primula auricula. Natural Order: Primulacece—Primrose Family. 
UROPE gave birth to this flower. It is a native of the Alps, 
where its fragrant and pure blossoms are one of Nature’s 
^first tributes to spring. It is greatly admired as an ornament 
to our gardens, and is said to bloom best when favored with a 
northern aspect. Its name is derived from two Latin words: 
Primula, from -primus , first, because it blossoms so early in the 
spring, and Auricula, from its ear-shaped leaves. The species mostly 
cultivated are the Cowslip Primrose, a perennial from Great Britain, 
with yellow flowers; the purple, found on the mountains of Nepaul, 
Asia; the double-cupped, native of Austria; and the common Primrose 
of Europe. 
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\ LL that imagination’s power could trace, 
^ 1 Breath’d in the pencil’s imitative grace; 
O’er all the canvas, form, and soul, and feeling, 
That wondrous art infus’d with power of life; 
Portray’d each pulse, each passion’s might revealing; 
Sorrow and joy, life, hatred, fear and strife. 
. — From the Spanish. 
'T'HEN first from love, in Nature’s bowers, 
Did Painting learn her fairy skill, 
And cull the hues of loveliest flowers, 
To picture woman lovelier still. —Moore. 
TARE yet thy pencil tries her nicer toils, 
Or on thy palette lie the blended oils, 
Thy careless chalk has half achieved thy art, 
And her just image makes Cleora start. 
— Tickell. 
POME! the colors and the ground prepare: 
Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; 
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 
—Pope. 
S she not more than painting can express, 
Or youthful poets fancy when they love? 
-Rowe. 
’npiS in life as ’tis in painting: 
Much mav be right, yet much be wanting. 
— Prior. 
POME, thou best of painters, 
^ Prince of the Rhodian art; 
Paint, thou best of painters, 
The mistress of my heart. 
— Win. Hay's Trans. Anacreon {Greek). 
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