LASTING BEAUTY. 
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stant in its benefits, it offers to us, all the 
year, its beautiful red and pyramidal flowers, 
which always diffuse an agreeable odour. 
The finest gillyflowers are red; they derive 
their name from their colour, which rivals in 
brilliancy the far-famed purple of Tyre. 
White, violet, and variegated gillyflowers 
have also their charms ; but since America, 
Asia, and Africa, have sent their brilliant 
tributes, we have neglected the beautiful 
daughter of our own climate, so dear to our 
forefathers. Towards the setting of the sun 
a delightful fragrance is exhaled from the 
Lavish stock that scents the garden round. 
THOMSON. 
This beautiful flower may be said to grow 
in our parterres, like a blooming and lovely 
beauty, who scatters health around her; 
health, that chief of blessings, without which 
there can be neither happiness nor lasting 
beauty. 
