THE MOSS ROSE. 
Botanical Name, Rosa muscosa. — Class, Icosandria .— 
Order, Polygynia. — Flowers, bright crimson . — Native 
place, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
SUPEEIOR MERIT. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The Moss Rose is undeniably the most beau¬ 
tiful of all the roses, and this would be suffi¬ 
cient to justify the union of the flower and 
the sentiment •, but we love to have the au¬ 
thority of the poets, and on this occasion we 
have their support, for they have sung— 
“ The moss rose, that at fall of dew 
Was freshly gather’d from its stem, 
She values as a diadem,” 
