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BEAUTY EVER NEW. 
CHINA, OR MONTHLY ROSE. 
The patient beauty of the monthly rose. 
H. COLERIDGE. 
Tus plant, so frequently seen clustering 
round the cottage porch, as well in the imme- 
diate outskirts of busy smoky towns as in the 
remotest vales, was originally brought to 
England in 1789. It was then thought so 
delicate as to require the constant heat of the 
stove, and small cuttings were sold for several 
guineas each. This was soon found not to be 
necessary ; and, in a short time, almost every 
country casement was ornamented by this 
Chinese beauty ; until our cottagers, wanting 
means to purchase flower-plots, planted them 
in the open ground ; where, persevering in the 
habits of a warmer climate, they quickly sur- 
passed, in strength and beauty, all the inmates 
of the “ gardens in which art supplies the fer- 
vour and the force of Indian skies.” 
This is the earliest flowering rose; and in 
mild seasons, when planted against a wall, will 
sometimes flower in the beginning of April ; 
and, being protected by glass in autumn, or 
aided by artificial heat, may be continued in 
bloom till Christmas, 
