DICTIONARY. 
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Beauty, Capricious, Musk Rose. The small 
flowers of the Musk Rose would be insignifi¬ 
cant, if they did not grow in clusters of from 
twenty to one hundred and more. Their 
delicate musky scent is very agreeable. This 
plant, however, is extremely capricious : all 
at once it will languish, in situations which 
at first appeared the most favourable for it; 
and one year it will be loaded with flowers, 
while the next perhaps it will have none at 
all. 
- Ever New. The Monthly Rose, which 
flowers all the year. 
- Fleeting, Withered Rose. When we 
contemplate a withered Rose, and reflect 
that only a few hours since it was revelling 
in all the pride of beauty, we cannot but 
regard it as an appropriate emblem of the 
fleeting nature of personal charms; for, bril¬ 
liant as they may be, how quickly do they 
fade ! Still, the withered Rose, which, though 
in decay, retains its fragrance, may teach us 
that, even when beauty has fled, we may 
yet, like it, have it in our power to please. 
—- Lasting, Stock. Page 150. 
