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LIVELY AND PURE AFFECTION, 
PINK. 
Each pink sends forth its choicest sweet, 
Aurora’s warm embrace to meet. 
MARY ROBINSON. 
Tue 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 colour 
to the perfect white; and from a deep red toa 
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 streaked 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 
