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During the few days that remained previously to their leaving home, the children were much in the garden. Each day brought some fresh flower into blossom, so that the parterres were a scene of great variety and beauty. Most of the rose-trees were adorned with their exquisite flowers. Mrs. Vernon told them, that the rose was always considered the queen of flowers, being a combination of beauty, elegance, and fragrance. The variety is very great:

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who were united by the marriage of
Henry the Seventh with the daughter of
Edward the Fourth. That delicate-look-
ing rose is called the blush-rose, because
the pink colour is dark in the centre, and
gradually becomes paler, till it is nearly
white at the outward part. Now
to some roses of a more diminutive kind.
Here is the rose de Meaux: what beauti-
ful little flowers it has! we may wonder
how the branches support such clusters
of them. And here is another still less.
This miniature rose is the Burgundy
rose: its flower looks like a crimson daisy,
the petals are so small. All these were
originally natives of France, and we are
constantly getting new varieties from that
country. We are also indebted to other

parts of the continent for many species;
valuable sorts

have some

very

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rose I showed you last month, Agnes, with its flowers red on the outside, and yellow within?" "It was the Austrian rose, mamma. There is not one left; they were very early, and soon decayed, and had no perfume, but rather a disagreeable smell." "You are right, Agnes," said her mamma; " and I am glad to hear that you remember what I tell you; next summer, I hope you will be able to tell me the names of any flowers I point out to you." "Yes, mamma, I hope I shall; and perhaps you will allow me to look at. the plates of some of your botanical books, which will help me very much." "Well, my dear," said her mamma, "when the winter evenings arrive, we will amuse ourselves by looking at the plants in Sowerby's British Botany, and Curtis's Botanical Magazine, where we shall find all

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