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LIVELY AND PURE AFFECTION. 
PINK. 
Each pink sends forth its choicest sweet, 
Aurora’s warm embrace to meet. 
MARY ROBINSON. 
The primitive pink is simple red or white, 
and perfumed. We occasionally observe where 
the wild pink crowns the garden wall, 
And with the flowers are intermingled stones 
Sparry and bright, rough scatterings of the hills. 
WORDSWORTH. 
Cultivation has doubled the petals of this 
favourite flower, and procured for it an infinite 
variety of colouring, so that it is painted with 
a thousand shades, from the delicate rose co¬ 
lour to the perfect white; and from a deep red 
to a brilliant scarlet. In some varieties we 
observe opposite colours placed together on 
the same flower; the pure white is tipped 
with crimson, and the rose coloured is streak¬ 
ed with lively and brilliant red. We also see 
these beautiful flowers marbled, speckled, and 
at other times bisected in such a manner that 
the deceived eye leads us to imagine that 
the same cup contains a purple flower, and 
one of palest alabaster. Nearly as varied in 
form as in colour, the pink always preserves 
