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LANGUAGE AND 
ROSE, AUSTRIAN 
Tlosa bicolor . Class 12; Order 13. 
Leaflet fine. Flowers small. A few species found 
in China and Japan, and nine or ten in North 
America. 
THOU ART ALL THAT IS LOVELY. 
Thy beauty wins my heart 
By its unstudied grace ; 
There is no show of art 
In thy sweet, radiant face; 
But soft simplicity and youth, 
And gentle love and sunny truth, 
Around thy face a spell have thrown, 
That wins and makes me all thine own. 
By universal suffrage the Rose has been voted 
to be the loveliest amongst the children of 
Flora. There is scarcely a name of any note 
in the world’s literature that has not paid a wil¬ 
ling tribute to the beauties of the “ bloom of 
love.” 
It is a native of the East, whence it travelled 
westward. It has now become an inhabitant 
of every civilized country, and opes its glowing 
petals to the sun in every quarter of the globe. 
Its scent is the most exquisite, its colors the most 
fascinating, and its verdure the most refreshing 
of all the beauties of nature. 
