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THE PURPLE LILAC. 
Botanical Name, Syringa vulgaris. —Class, Diandria. 
—Order, Monogynia.—Native glace, India, Persia. 
Sentiment. 
EIBST EMOTIONS OE LOVE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
It is said that a celebrated painter of flowers, 
on attempting to paint a group of lilacs 
threw down his pencil in despair, such was 
the variety and beauty of the various shades 
which each tiny particle presented, while 
round the group “ the rainbow seemed to revel 
and decompose itself into a hundred shades 
and colours, which, all commingling in the 
general tone and tint, achieve a happy har¬ 
mony which might well baffle the painter.” 
A nd who shall describe the first emotions of 
love ? The imagination of the poet can no 
