Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — The Rose of Sharon. [ARTICLE]

The Rose of Sharon.

The roae of Sharon is one of the most exquisite flowers in shape and hue. Its blossoms are bell-shaped, and of many mingled hues and dyes. The history of this flower is legendary and romautic in the highest degree. Li the East, throughout Syria, Judea, and Ai abia, it is regarded with the profoundest reverence. The leaves that encircle the round blossom dry and close tight together when the season of blossom is over, and the stalk withering completely away from the stem, the flower is blown away, at last, from the bush on which it grew, having dried up in the shape of a ball, which is carried by the sport of the breeze to great distances. In this way, it is borne over sandy wastes and desertß until at last, touching some moist place, it clings to the soil, where it immediately takes fresh root and springs to life and beauty again. For this very reason the Orientals have adopted it as an emblem of the resurrection.