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THE PRIMROSE. 
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Botanical Name, Primula vulgaris. —Class, Pentandria. 
—Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, pale saffron, or yeUow. 
—Native jplace, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
EARLY YOUTH. 
ORIGIN OE THE SENTIMENT. 
The Primrose is a child of the early spring; 
winter is passed ere it appears, and, if fine 
weather has not arrived, the opening blossoms 
of the Primrose awaken hopes that it is not 
far distant. A new year has begun before 
it appears; yet at its appearance the year 
is so young as to give us only hopes of what 
it may produce, as, like early youth, we can 
