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Ah ! Peace is never found in Pleasure’s whirl. 
Nor where ambition’s luring meteors burn. 
These bring no lasting joy; in humble worth 
Lies all the enduring glory of this earth. 
S. C. E. 
The emblem of that crime by which Wolsey 
tells us the angels fell is the tall and stately 
Hollyhock. A few years ago it was often desig¬ 
nated the “ garden mallow,” and, indeed, be¬ 
longs to the mallow family. From the fact that 
it is known in France as Rose cl’outre Mer , or 
“rose from beyond the sea,” it has been sur¬ 
mised that it was first introduced into Europe 
from Syria by the Crusaders. Sometimes it is 
styled the “ China rose,” because large numbers 
of roots have been imported from that country, 
with whose inhabitants its showy bloomage 
makes it a great favorite. 
In some parts of France this symbol of am¬ 
bition is used to show the divisions of gardens 
and vineyards, in the same way that privet is in 
England ; their showy splendor—a splendor that 
is doubly prized because it does not “ put forth 
such blaze of beaut}' as translates to dullest 
hearts its dialect of pride,” until full-hearted 
summer has carried off all her other floral favor¬ 
ites. Then does the stately stem of the holly¬ 
hock shoot up above the fading and faded blos¬ 
soms, and bedecks itself with gallant bouquets 
