THE WHITE ROSE. 
Botanical Name, Rosa alba. —Class, Icosandria. —Order, 
Folygynia. — Flowers, sometimes of a pure white, and 
sometimes tinged with a delicate blush .—Native place, 
Europe. 
Sentiment. 
SILENCE. 
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ORIGIN OP THE SENTIMENT. 
In the friendly assemblies, or domestic festi¬ 
vals of the ancients, it was customary to sus¬ 
pend a White Rose as an indication that 
nothing which passed at the feast was to be 
revealed. The White Rose being sacred to 
silence, nothing spoken “ under the rose ” 
was ever repeated ; hence, no doubt, the pre- 
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