



184 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
TUBEROSE. 
DANGEROUS PLEASURES. 
Tuts superb child of the East, to which Lin- 
neus gave by way of eminence the epithet Po- 
lianthes, from two Greek words signifying a 
town and a flower, because it is generally culti- 
vated and sold in towns, was first brought from 
Persia to France in 1632. It was then but 
single, and double flowers were not produced 
till long afterwards bya skilful florist of Leyden, 
named Lecour. It has since spread over all the 
world. In Russia, indeed, it flowers only for 
sovereigns and the great; but it has become 
naturalized in Peru, where it grows without 
culture, and unites with the glowing nastur- 
tium to adorn the bosom of the American 
beauty. 
The flower of the Tuberose, which grows on 
the top of a very tall, slender stem, is of a 
white colour, sometimes tinged with a blush of 
pink. Its perfume is delicious, rich, and power- 

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