Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — An Exquisite Flower. [ARTICLE]

An Exquisite Flower.

Both in shape and hue the Rose oi Sharon is an exquisite jflower. Its blossoms are bell-shaped, and of many ipingled lines and dyes. But its history is legendary and romantic in the highest degree. In the East, throughout -Syria, Judea, and Arabia, it is regarded with the profoqndest reverence. .The leaves that encircle the round blossoms dry and close together when the season of blossoms is over, and the stalk, withering completely away at last from the bush on which it grew, having dried in the shape of a ball, wliieh is carried by the breeze to great distances. In this way it is borne over the wastes and sandy deserts, and at last, touching some moist place, it clings to the soil, where it immediately takes fresh root and springs to life and beautv again. For this reason the Orientals have adopted it as the emblem of resurrection. ' We cannot understand what we havenever experienced; we ne d pain, were 'ip oijly tp teach ns sympathy.