Title: South by west, or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and spring in Mexico.Author: Rose Georgina KingsleyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03282900CollectionID: CTRG00-B729PublicationDate: 18740101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: xvii, 411 p.: ill., fold. map.; 22 cm

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Also Contains Charles Kingsley And His Dogs, Queen Elizabeth's Schoolmaster, The Queen's Little Skye, The Ruskin May-Day At White-Lands College By Sarah K. Bolton, Last Tale Of Charles Perrault By Katherine M. Haven.

Also Contains Charles Kingsley And His Dogs, Queen Elizabeth's Schoolmaster, The Queen's Little Skye, The Ruskin May-Day At White-Lands College By Sarah K. Bolton, Last Tale Of Charles Perrault By Katherine M. Haven.

THE rose Beerns to have been a cherished flower from time itnulciuorial. In Holy Writ the prophet Isaiah says The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose, but it is doubtful if the roae he mentions is the true one. However, the rose has long flourished in the Holy Land and the East generally, and so it is more than probable that the rose of Holy Writ may be the true one. Anyway, the ancients were well acquainted with its beauties and subtle charms, since Herodotus, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Virgil, and Pliny of old refer to it. The latter, indeed, says that the warriors of his time crowned themselves with garlands of roses during their feasts, and also covered their food with the petals or sprinkled it with the fragrant oil thereof. In more modern times the roae has alsobeen held in high esteem as an emblem of joy and sadness. Thus young folks used to decorate themselves with garlands of roses, strew roses on the ground before the happy bridal pair and, according to Camden, a writer in the fifteenth century, there was in his day a classical custom observed, time out of mind, at Oakley, in Surrey, of planting a roae tree on the graves, especially of the young men and maidens who have just lost their lovers, so that this churchyard is full of them. Then, it has long been a custom in this country to use rosewater to wash the hands and refresh the face after a banquet. In other ways, less romantic, the rose has come into prominence in this country. As everyope who hae read English history knows, the red and the white rose were chosen as emblems by the opposing factions in the War of the Roses, made famous by the immortal bard, Shakespeare . . . . This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night. Since that memorable affair the rose, however, has been regarded more as the emblem of peace. For the last three iii hundred years, at least, it has gradually becou e a favourite flower for decorating the garden, the greenhouse, and the home. Now the possessor of the humble cottage, garden, the villa garden, and of the larger garden of the manor and palace, cultivates the rose by the dozens, hundreds, and thousands, and cherishes its brilliant and dainty colours and delicious fragrance more than that of any other flower. So popular, indeed, has it become that it has been crowned unanimously as the Queen of Flowers. As showing the remarkable increase of varieties cultivated during the last three hundred years, we may mention that in 1581 ten sorts were described, in 1630 nineteen varieties, in 1784 twenty-one, in 1797 forty-six. In 1829 a French grower published a catalogue of 2,562 varieties, and tell years later the number had advanced to thousands. The varieties named in the classified list a. t the end of this volume by no means represent the wholeof those in cultivation on the Continent. Still, the list is a formidable one...