GROUP OF ROSES.
 As Spring advances, the flower of the greatest beauty appears, the Rose,
equally prized in every
 quarter of the globe, which in its wild state has five heart-shaped petals
of a delicate blush, and
 beautifully veined, a calyx of singular construction, being urn-shaped,
and the upper part
 shooting out into five rays, or segments, whereof three of them are beautifully
fringed.  The sta-
 mina are numerous, and inserted into the calyx, and the pistilla are also
several, inserted into the
 calyx; hence it comes under Class XII. ICOSANDRIA, Order V. POLYGYNIA, of
Linnaeus.
   Roses are white, red, and yellow, arid have pinnated leaves, ending in
an odd one, and owe much
 to cultivation, losing thereby their stamina and pistilla, and multiplying
in an infinite degree the
 petals; hence they become monsters (beautiful ones); and we have here represented
the white, the
 damask, and the moss-rose, and variegated, and added the Dog-rose, to shew
the primitive state of
 this lovely flower.
   In the East, where every thing is, from the fervor of a lively imagination,
painted in hierogly-
 phic characters, the return of the Nightingale from Egypt to Persia, and
the flowering of the
 Rose, at precisely the same period, gave rise, most probably, to the hybrid,
so frequently described
 in Oriental poetry.
                  Thus the sweet NIGHTINGALE, in eastern bowers9
                  On quivering pinion woos the QUEEN OF FLOWERS;
                  Inhales her fragrance as he hangs in air,
                  And melts with melody the blushing Fair;-
                  To the soft Zephyrs, sweet-warbling as they move,
                  In songs of love HE thrills the vocal grove.
                  Departing Evening stays her beamy star,
                  And still Night lingers in his ebon car:
                  While on white wings descending Houries throng,
                  And drink the floods of odour and of song.
                                                                  DARWIN.
 Both the Swallow and Nightingale in the winter months retire to Egypt. Anacreon
thus ad-
dresses the Swallow:
                     ODE TO THE SWALLOW.
                   Once in each revolving year,
                   Gentle bird! we find thee here;
                   When Nature wears her summer vest,
                   Thou com'st to weave thy simple nest;
                   But when the chilling winter lowers,
                   Again thou seek'st the genial bowers
                   Of Memphis, or the shores of Nile,
                   Where constant hours of verdure smile.
 That the Nightingale retires to Egypt is confirmed by SONNINI in his Travels
into Upper and
Lower Egypt.  "I met," says this traveller, "with several
Nightingales, who frequent the most
shady thickets in the vicinity of the water.  They are silent in Egypt, which
they leave in Spring,
to warble out their songs of love, and hail her arrival in other countries."-They
reach Italy usually