Hosa eglailtci'ia. Natural Order: Rosacece—Rose Family. 
OSES, as well as flowers of all other kinds, are very much culti- 
ated 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. 
5k It is said that the essential oil, attar or otto of Roses, was 
^ first discovered by Nur Jehan, better known as Nur Mahal 
(“light of the harem”), wife of Jehanghir, Moghul emperor of Hin- 
doostan, 1605-27. She observed an oily substance floating on a vessel of 
qp Ros'e-water that had been distilled by the heat of the sun. The attar is 
very fragrant, being so concentrated that one drop will perfume a whole 
dressing-case; and so expensive that an ounce will cost about one hun- 
^ dred dollars, requiring nearly half a million of average Roses for its 
production. 
F'V SWEET, pale face! O lovely eyes of azure, 
Clear as the waters of a brook that run 
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! 
O golden hair, that, like a miser’s treasure, 
'T'HAT loveliness ever in motion, which plays, 
Like the light upon autumn’s soft, shadowy days, 
Noav here, and now there, giving warmth as it flies, 
From the lips to the cheeks, from the cheek to the eyes. 
— Moore. 
In its abundance overflows the measure! 
O graceful form, that cloudlike floatest on, 
With the soft, undulating gait of one 
Who moveth as if motion were a pleasure. 
— Longfellovj. 
AH! could you look into my heart, 
1 ^ And watch your image there, 
You would own the sunny loveliness 
Affection makes it wear. —Mrs. Osgood. 
face right wondrous fair did seem to be, TTER dress, her shape, her matchless grace, 
?hat her broad beauty’s beam great brightness threw A 1 Were all observed, as well as heav’nly face; 
Through the dim shade, that all men might it see. With such peerless majesty she stands. 
— Spenser. —Drvdeu. 
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