SUMMER. 
JUNE. 
THE MONTH OF ROSES. 
ueen of flowers, who that 
could sing has not sung thee, 
enchanting Hose ? Yet no ex¬ 
pression can exaggerate, or 
even do justice to, thy per¬ 
fections. Perhaps the sweetest 
title of the Virgin Mother, to 
the heart of many a Catholic 
maiden, is the one of “ Rosa Mystica.” Among the 
Greeks and Romans the rose was the most conspic- 
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