THE AMARANTH. 
Botanical Name, Amaranthusspicatus. —Class, Moncecia. 
—Order, Triandria. — Flowers, crimson .—Native place, 
Europe, Asia, and America. 
Sentiment. 
IMMORTALITY. 
» ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The ancients and the moderns agree in 
devoting the Amaranth to immortality. The 
former surrounded the brows of their deities 
with wreaths of its flowers, and our own 
Milton has placed it on the bowers of 
Paradise, 
“ Fast by the tree of life.” 
At the funereal rites of Achilles, the Thes¬ 
salians crowned their heads with Amaranth; 
and Christina of Sweden, in renouncing a 
