THE 
RED-LEAVED ROSE. 
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Botanical Name, Rosa rubrifolia. —Class, Icosandria .— 
Order, Polygynia. — Floivers, red; indeed, the whole 
plant, leaves and stalk, are more or less tinged with red. 
—Native place, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
BEAUTY. 
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ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
Tradition asserts that the Rose was origin¬ 
ally white, and that Zephyr, enamoured of 
her beauty, reclining on her bosom, compli¬ 
mented her upon her charms, and thus caused 
her to blush; when, by his power as a rela¬ 
tion of the gods, he fixed the colour for ever, 
