. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE POLIANTHES. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's ; Shelley, admiring the flower, wrote, "And Narcissi, the fairest among them all— Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness !" THE POLIANTHES {P. ^2^fewj-«).—Voluptuousness. This beautiful and most odoriferous flower, commonly known as the Tuberos
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE POLIANTHES. So while the poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's ; Shelley, admiring the flower, wrote, "And Narcissi, the fairest among them all— Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness !" THE POLIANTHES {P. ^2^fewj-«).—Voluptuousness. This beautiful and most odoriferous flower, commonly known as the Tuberose, and which is calculated to please all, was brought from Persia in 1632. It flowered for the first time in France, at M. de Peiresc's, at Beaugencier, near Toulon. The flower was then single ; but its petals became double after some time, under the careful hand of Lecour, of Leyden. From that place it spread every where. In Russia it blooms only for royalty, and those who come near the court. It is naturalized in Peru; there it grows without culture, and com- bines with the brilliant capucin to decorate the fair American. The Tuberose, that superb native of the East, which the illus- trious Linnaeus has named Polianthes, from the abundance of its flowers, a flower worthy of cities, has become with us, as it is in Persia, the emblem of Voluptuousness. A young Icoglan, who receives from the hands of his mistress a stem of the Tuberose in bloom, experiences supreme happiness ; 164. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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