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 Entered according’ to act of Congress, in the year 1846, by 
 ABEL TOMPKINS, 
 
 In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. 
 
 Stereoty ped by 
 GEORGE A. CURTIS; 
 
 NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The custom of fortune-telling is nearly as 
 old as time. Almost everything has been 
 turned into an oracle. Even the dregs of a 
 teacup have been supposed to possess the 
 “gift of prophecy.”- Why, then, should not 
 flowers, that are forever rising up, clothed 
 with the mantles of prophets, and speaking 
 in a language that has become as familiar as 
 household words — why should not these little 
 “floral apostles” be consulted respecting the 
 mysteries of our earthly destiny ? 
 
 At all events, they are pure and beautiful 
 playthings for the fancy ; and if any diversion 
 on earth be innocent, it must be one whose 
 instruments are poetry and flowers. 
 
 In selecting our oracles, we have drawn 
 from the purest wells of English poetry ; for 
 who like Shakspeare can describe character, 
 or like Wordsworth, Coleridge and Tenny¬ 
 son, picture a scene ? We have also turned 
 
IV 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 over the pages of the great German dram¬ 
 atists, and here and there culled from them a 
 word of wisdom, or of prophecy. Our aim 
 has been to condense into our brief oracles as 
 much point, wit and variety, as the interest 
 of the game will permit. 
 
 How well we have succeeded in our attempt 
 to please, will be best determined by the fu¬ 
 ture success of this little book. God speed 
 it on a harmless way ! 
 
KEY TO THE FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 The following five questions are answered, re¬ 
 specting the character and future fortunes of an 
 individual. 
 
 1. What is my character ? 
 
 2. What is, or will be, the state or quality of my 
 love? 
 
 3. What is, or will be, my vrorklly fortune ? 
 
 4. What is the scene in which most of my life 
 will be spent ? 
 
 5. What is the character of my future com¬ 
 panion ? 
 
 The person consulting our little Fortune-Teller, 
 must select a bouquet of five different colored flow¬ 
 ers, of whatever kind he chooses. The White shall 
 describe to him his character; the Blue, the state 
 or quality of his love; the Purple , his worldly for¬ 
 tune; the Yellow, the scene in which his life shall 
 be chiefly passed; and the Red, the character of his 
 future wife. 
 
 For example; if a gentleman bring a white Lily, 
 a blue Violet, a Foxglove, a Marigold and a red 
 Rose, he will first turn to the catalogue of White 
 flowers, where, under the head of Lily, he will find 
 this description of his character : 
 
 “ Of a free and open nature, 
 
 That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, 
 And will as tenderly be led by the nose 
 As asses are.” 
 
 SlIAKSPEARB. 
 
Vi KEY TO FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 The Violet, found in the catalogue of Blue flow¬ 
 ers, will unfold the state of his “ love matters” as 
 follows: 
 
 “ You are now sailed into the north of my lady’s 
 opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on a 
 Dutchman’s heard,-—unless you do redeem it by 
 some laudable attempt.” Shakspeare. 
 
 The Foxglove will thus declare his worldly con¬ 
 dition : 
 
 “ Poor, but content, is rich, and rich enough.” 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 To learn the scene of his future abode he will con¬ 
 sult the Marigold. 
 
 “ A cottage on a plot of ground, ' 
 
 With large prospect north and south.” 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 The Rose jvill reveal to him the character of his v 
 wife : 
 
 “ A woman in her freshest age, 
 
 Of wondrous beauty and of bounty rare, , 
 
 Full of great love.” Spenser. 
 
 By different combinations of flowers, a great 
 variety of fates may be unfolded. Nor is the pur¬ 
 pose of the game wholly confined to the reading of 
 fortunes. Any gentleman wishing to compliment 
 a lady, may do it in a very delicate and poetical 
 mannei', by selecting a bouquet of flowers that shall 
 express the good fortune he wishes her. 
 
 The first paragraph upon each page is for the 
 Lady, the second for the Gentleman. 
 
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 WHITE FLOWERS. 
 
 Describing your Character. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
APPLE-BLOSSOM. 
 
 A most fresh and delicate creature. 
 
 A most exquisite lady. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Thou hast been 
 
 As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; 
 A man that fortune’s buffets and rewards 
 Hast ta’en with equal thanks; and bless’d 
 are those 
 
 Whose blood and judgment are so well com¬ 
 mingled, 
 
 That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger 
 To sound what stop she pleases. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
10 THEFLOKAL 
 
 APRICOT-BLOSSOM. 
 
 The world hath not a sweeter creature. 
 * * * ■* 
 What an eye!—Methinks it sounds a parley 
 of provocation.—An inviting eye, and yet, 
 methinks, right modest. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 An eye, like Mars, to threaten and command, 
 A combination and a form, indeed, 
 
 Where every god did seem to set his seal 
 To give the world assurance of a man. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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FOKTUNE-TELLER. 11 
 
 ANEMONE, OR WIND ELOWER. 
 
 Your eye is like the star of eve, 
 
 And sweet your voice as seraph’s song. 
 
 * * * * 
 Within your soul a voice there lives ! 
 
 It bids you hear the tale of woe. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
 Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
 Where none will sweat but for promotion, 
 And having that, do choke their service up, 
 Even with the having ; it is not so with thee 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
12 THE FLORAL 
 
 BACHELOR’S BUTTON. 
 
 Sell when you can ; you are not for all mar¬ 
 kets. 
 
 Shakspeake. 
 
 
 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
 Seeking the bubble reputation. 
 
 SlIAKSPRAUE. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER 
 
 13 
 
 BALSAMINE 
 
 Thou hast always been gentle and good. 
 
 Beaumont. 
 
 A butterfly, a lord 
 
 Of flowers, garlands, love-knots, silly posies, 
 Groves, meadows, melodies and arbor-roses. 
 
 Keats. 
 
14 THE FLORAL 
 
 BLOOD ROOT. 
 
 You have deserved high commendation, true 
 applause, and love. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 You have a nimble wit. 
 
 Your spirits are too bold for your years. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 17 
 
 CHINA ASTER. 
 
 Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Thy mind is a very opal! I would have 
 men of such constancy put to sea, that their 
 business might be everything, and their intent 
 everywhere. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 19 
 
 CLEMATIS. 
 
 Of excellent discourse, 
 
 Pretty and witty; wild, and yet too, gentle. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 Believe me, in thy breast are thy destiny’s 
 stars. Trust in thyself. Decision is thy 
 Venus. The Malignant, the only one that 
 injures thee, is irresolution. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
22 THE FLORAL 
 
 CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
 
 Thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing cour¬ 
 teous, 
 
 But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time 
 flowers. 
 
 SlIAKSPEARE. 
 
 Thou art e’en as just a man, 
 
 As e’er my conversation coped withal. 
 
 SlIAKSPEARE. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 23 
 
 DAHLIA. 
 
 Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look 
 askance, 
 
 Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will; 
 
 Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk ; 
 But thou with mildness entertain’st thy 
 wooers, 
 
 With gentle conference soft and affable. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, 
 Everything by starts, and nothing long. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
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 THE FLCKAL 
 
 DAISY 
 
 A good lady, and a wise and virtuous. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 As gentle 
 
 As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, 
 
 Not wagging bis sweet head; and yet as 
 rough, 
 
 The blood enchased, as the rudest wind, 
 
 That by the top doth take the mountain-pine, 
 And make him stoop to the vale. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 25 
 
 DAFFODIL. 
 
 A face with gladness overspread ! 
 
 Soft smiles by human kindness bred! 
 And seemliness complete, that sways 
 Thy courtesies, about thee plays. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Full of ambition ; an envious emulator 
 
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 Of every man’s good parts. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
26 THE F10KAL 
 
 ELDER. 
 
 God hath given you one face, and you make 
 yourself another; you jig, you amble, you 
 lisp. 
 
 Shakspeare; 
 
 The glass of fashion and the mould of form, 
 The observed of all observers. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 27 
 
 EVERLASTING. 
 
 A gentle maid, whose heart is lowly bred, 
 Whose pleasures are in wild fields gathered. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 One of those gentle ones that will use the 
 devil himself with courtesy. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
30 
 
 THE FLOEAL 
 
 HONEYSUCKLE. 
 
 The mercer’s plague, from shop to shop 
 Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks 
 The polished counter, and approving none, 
 
 Or promising with smiles to call again. 
 
 COWPER. 
 
 Well read in poetry and other books, 
 Cunning in music and the mathematics. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 31 
 
 HAWTHORN. 
 
 Young, modest, meek and beautiful. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 In genius and substantial learning high ; 
 
 For every virtue, every worth renowned. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 33 
 
 LILY. 
 
 A miniature of loveliness ; all grace 
 Summed up, and closed in little. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Of a free and open nature, 
 
 That thinks men honest that but seem to be 
 so, 
 
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 And will as tenderly be led by the nose 
 As asses are. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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34 THE FLORAL 
 
 LOCUST. 
 
 Beauty has corrupted thy heart. That 
 little face ! shame on thee! In the morning 
 its splendor dies, its rose sheds its leaves. 
 Swallows that love in the spring-time fly 
 when the north-wind blows. Thine autumn 
 will frighten away thy lovers. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 A very, very—peacock J 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 35 
 
 LARKSPUR. 
 
 -Your heart’s like a child, 
 
 And your life like the new-driven snaw. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 
 A pure ingenuous elegance of soul, 
 
 A delicate refinement known to few. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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 THE FLORAL 
 
 LEMON 
 
 Fresher than the morning rose 
 
 When the dew wets its leaves ; unstained 
 
 As is the lily, and pure as the mountain snow. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 
 Thou art no Sabbath-drawler of old saws, 
 Distilled from some worm-cankered homily. 
 
 * * * Thou from a throne 
 
 Mounted in heaven wilt shoot into the dark 
 Arrows of lightnings. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 39 
 
 MYRTLE. 
 
 Thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be 
 so shrewd of thy tongue. 
 
 Shakspbare. 
 
 
 Rash, and very sudden in choler. 
 
 Shakspbare. 
 
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 THE FLORAL 
 
 ORANGE FLOWER 
 
 A lady of most confirmed honor, of an un- 
 matchable spirit, and determinable in all vir¬ 
 tuous resolutions ; not hasty to anticipate an 
 affront, nor slow to feel, where just provoca¬ 
 tion is given. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
 A little, upright, pert, tart, tripping wight. 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 THE FLORAL 
 
 PEA-BLOSSOM. 
 
 A serious,, subtle, wild, yet gentle being; 
 Graceful without design, and unforeseeing. 
 
 S Shelley. 
 
 Thy looks, thy gestures all present 
 The picture of a life well spent. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
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 THE FLORAL 
 
 PEONY 
 
 A merry, nimble, stirring spirit. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A man of letters and of manners too ; 
 
 Of manners sweet as virtue always wears 
 When gay good nature dresses her in smiles. 
 
 Cowper, 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 45 
 
 PINK; 
 
 Rich in love and sweet humanity. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Surpassed by few 
 
 In power of mind and eloquent discourse. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
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46 THE FLORAL 
 
 POPPY. 
 
 Nature never framed a woman’s heart 
 Of prouder stuff. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A man in all the world’s new fashion planted; 
 That hath a mint of phrases in his brains; 
 One whem the music of his own vain tongue 
 Doth ravish like enchanting harmony. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER 
 
 47 
 
 POTATO. 
 
 Thou art divine, fair lady: 
 
 The hearts of men adore thee. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Of all men the best deserving a fair lady. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
48 THE FLORAL 
 
 ROSE. 
 
 As fresh as the morning, the fairest in May; 
 As sweet as the evening among the new hay; 
 As blithe and as artless as the lambs on the 
 lea. 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 A merrier man, within the limit of becom¬ 
 ing mirth, 1 never spent an hour’s talk withal. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 49 
 
 SNOW-DROP. 
 
 To see thee is to love thee, 
 
 And love but thee forever ; 
 
 For Nature made thee what thou art, 
 
 And ne’er made sic’ anither! 
 
 Burns. 
 
 Young in limbs, in judgment old. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
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50 IHE FLORAL 
 
 STRAWBERRY-BLOSSOM. 
 
 Charming, sweet and young, 
 No artful wiles to win. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 
 
 A kinder gentleman treads not the earth. 
 
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 Lamb. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLEB. 51 
 
 SNOWBALL. 
 
 A maid of grace and complete majesty. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A unit; a thing without a name in the 
 state; a something to he governed, not to 
 govern. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
52 THE FLORAL 
 
 SWEET-WILLIAM. 
 
 Never saw I mien or face 
 In which more plainly I could trace 
 Benignity and homebred sense, 
 Ripening in perfect innocence. 
 
 WOKDSWOETH. 
 
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 A fishing, hawking, hunting country gentle¬ 
 man. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 53 
 
 SPIREA. 
 
 Thou art of so free, so kind, so apt, so 
 blessed a disposition, that thou holdest it a 
 vice in thy goodness not to do more than thou 
 art requested. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 An affable and courteous gentleman. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
54 THE FLORAL 
 
 STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
 
 A maiden never bold— 
 
 Of spirit so still and quiet, that thy motion 
 Blushes at thyself. 
 
 SlIAKSPEARE. 
 
 Subtle, discerning, eloquent; the slave 
 Of Love, of Hate, forever in extremes ; 
 Gentle when unprovoked, easily won, 
 
 But quick in quarrel—thro’ a thousand shades 
 Thy spirit flits, chameleon-like; and mocks 
 The «ye of the observer. 
 
 Rogers. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER 
 
 55 
 
 SYRINGA 
 
 Most rich in gifts of mind, 
 
 Nor sparingly endowed with worldly wealth. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 
 Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth, 
 In voices well divulged, free, learned and 
 valiant, 
 
 And in dimensions and the shape of nature 
 A gracious person. 
 
 Shakspbare. 
 
56 THE FLORAL 
 
 VERBENA. 
 
 Thou hast a mind that suits 
 With this, thy fair and outward character. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Not yet old enough for a man, nor young 
 enough for a boy ; as a squash is before it is 
 a peascod, or a codling when’t is almost an 
 apple. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 57 
 
 VIOLET. 
 
 Generous, full of gentle qualities, 
 Incapable of base compliances. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
 Never did there live on earth 
 A man of kindlier nature. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
58 FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 YARROW. 
 
 
 As bonnie lasses I have seen, 
 And mony full as braw, 
 
 But for a modest, graceful mien, 
 The like I never saw. 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 Thou art an old love-monger! 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 BLUE FLO WEES. 
 
 Describing the State or Quality of your 
 Affections. 
 

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62 THE FLORAL 
 
 BACHELOR’S BUTTON. 
 
 A virgin purest-lipped, yet in the lore 
 Of love, deep-learned to the red heart’s core. 
 
 Keats. 
 
 But that you love, 
 
 You would not your unhoused free condition 
 Put into circumscription and confine 
 For the sea’s worth. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
66 THE FLORAL 
 
 FORGET-ME-NOT. 
 
 Oh how the spring of love resembleth 
 The uncertain glories of an April day, 
 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
 And by and by a cloud takes all away. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Perfect esteem, enlivened by desire 
 Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; 
 
 Thought meeting thought, and will prevent¬ 
 ing will, 
 
 With boundless confidence. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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68 
 
 the floral 
 
 HELIOTROPE. 
 
 Your heart is burst—you have lost half your 
 
 soul. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 This is the very ecstasy of love, 
 Whose violent property foredoes itself, 
 
 And leads the will to desperate undertakings, 
 As oft as any passion under heaven 
 That does afflict our natures. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 69 
 
 HYACINTH. 
 
 There are many things which may be 
 grasped with eagerness; others can only be¬ 
 come ours through abstinence and modera¬ 
 tion. Such is the love thou covetest. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 The worst fault you have, is to be in love. 
 
 Shakspeake. 
 
70 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 IRIS. 
 
 Is it possible 
 
 That love should, of a sudden, take such 
 hold? s 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 
 -She alone, 
 
 Heard, felt, and seen, possesses every thought, 
 Fills every sense. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 71 
 
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 LAVENDER. 
 
 Rich in kindest, truest love. 
 
 Borns. 
 
 A, .-liOh how hard it is to find 
 
 The one just suited to your mind! 
 
 Campbell. 
 
72 THE FLORAL 
 
 LARKSPUR. 
 
 Oh! and you, forsooth, in love, 
 
 You that have been Love’s whip ! 
 
 \ Shakspbare. 
 
 Never wedding, ever wooing, 
 
 Still a lovelorn heart pursuing. 
 
 Campbell. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER 
 
 73 
 
 LOBELIA 
 
 Come, come! Wrestle with thy affections. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 Rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid 
 Shall from your neck unloose his amorous 
 folds, 
 
 And, like a dew-drop from a lion’s mane, 
 
 Be shook to air. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
74 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 lupine. 
 
 As m the bosom of the stream, 
 
 , The moonbeam dwells at dewy e’en, 
 
 So trembling, pure, is tender love, 
 Within thy breast.- 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 The heart of woman is but illy known to 
 you. 
 
 i Moliere. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 75 
 
 MONK’S HOOD. 
 
 Oh beware of jealousy; 
 
 It is the green-eyed monster which doth make 
 The meat it feeds on. 
 
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 -Oh what damned moments tells she o’er 
 
 Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly 
 loves. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 
 If you love the maid, 
 
 Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
76 THE FLORAL 
 
 MORNING GLORY. 
 
 It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; 
 Too like the lightning, which doth cease to 
 he, \ 
 
 Ere one can say, It lightens. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
 Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 
 The perfume and suppliance of a minute, 
 No more. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 77 
 
 PERIWINKLE. 
 
 A woman of a steadfast mind, 
 
 Tender and deep in thy excess of love. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Had ye never loved sae kindly, 
 
 Had ye never loved sae blindly, 
 
 Never met—or never parted, 
 
 Ye had ne’er been broken-hearted. 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 SAGE. 
 
 More joy it gives thy youthful breast, 
 
 To make ten frigid coxcombs vain, 
 
 Than one true, manly lover blest. 
 
 Moore. 
 
 Of loving fond, of roving fonder. 
 
 Moore. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 79 
 
 VERNAL GRASS. 
 
 Thou hast nothing in thy head but thy 
 love. Thou shouldst not forget all others for 
 one. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Is it possible that on so little acquaintance 
 you should like her? that, but seeing, you 
 should love her ? and loving, woo ? and woo 
 ing, she should grant? 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
80 FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 VIOLET. 
 
 Love* no man in good earnest, nor no fur¬ 
 ther in sport neither, than with safety of a 
 pure blush thou mayst in honor come off 
 again. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 You are now sailed into the north of my 
 lady’s opinion; where you will hang like an 
 icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do 
 redeem it by some laudable attempt. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
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 PURPLE FLOWERS. 
 
 Describing your Worldly Fortune. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 85 
 
 COLUMBINE. 
 
 Three months with one and six months 
 with another. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 To catch dame Fortune’s golden smile, 
 Assiduous wait upon her. 
 
 Burns. 
 
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 FORTUNE-TELLER. 87 
 
 EVERLASTING PEA. 
 
 No revenue hast thou but thy good spirits 
 To feed and clothe thee. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 -To cast and balance at a desk, 
 
 Perched like a crow upon a three-legged stool. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER 
 
 89 
 
 GERANIUM. 
 
 Mid the agitated billows of life thou main- 
 tainest a steadfast heart. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 
 The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s 
 law; 
 
 The world affords no law to make thee rich. 
 
 Shakspkare. 
 
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 THE FLORAL 
 
 LADY’S SLIPPED. 
 
 Infinite riches in a little room. 
 
 Marlowe. 
 
 Double, double, 
 
 Toil and trouble. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
ORTUNE-TELLER. 93 
 
 MONKEY FLOWER. 
 
 Tend the sick, or educate the young. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
 Friends, books, a garden, and perchance 
 Delightful industry enjoyed at home. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 95 
 
 ORCHIS. 
 
 Open house and ready fare. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 
 About two hundred pounds a year. 
 
 Butler. 
 
96 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 PANSY. 
 
 House within the city, 
 Richly furnished with plate and gold. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A prosperous man, thriving in trade. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 
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 FORTUNE-TELLER. 97 
 
 PETUNIA. 
 
 Peace, and comfort, and domestic bliss. 
 
 , Southey. 
 
 You can make no marriage present, 
 
 Little can you give your wife ; 
 
 Love will make your cottage pleasant. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
98 THE FLORAL 
 
 POLYANTHOS. 
 
 An elegant sufficiency; content, 
 
 Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
 Ease and alternate labor, useful life,, 
 Progressive virtue and approving Heaven. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 Listening senates hang upon thy tongue. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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fortune-teller. 99 
 
 POLYGALA. 
 
 From place to place, dwelling in no place 
 long. 
 
 Lamb. 
 
 To roam along, the world’s tired denizen. 
 
 Byron. 
 
100 the floral 
 
 RHODORA. 
 
 Whatever 
 
 Exalts, embellishes, and renders life 
 Delightful. 
 
 \ Thomson. 
 
 To turn the furrow, and to guide the tool 
 Mechanic. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
102 FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 WILLOW HERB. 
 
 An empty purse, * * * 
 
 * * * No money in it. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 How can he expect that others should 
 Build for him, sow for him, and at his call 
 Love him, who for himself will take no heed 
 at all? 
 
 Byron. 
 
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 YELLOW FLOWERS. 
 
 Describing the Scene of your Future Life. 
 

 
 
 
 
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FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 105 
 
 BUTTERCUP. 
 
 In a narrow sphere— 
 
 The little circle of domestic life. 
 
 Southey. 
 
 In the dissolute city. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
THE FLORAL 
 
 106 
 
 CINQUEFOIL. 
 
 A cot beside the hill; 
 
 A beehive hum shall soothe the ear, 
 
 A willowy brook that turns a mill, 
 With many a fall shall linger near. 
 
 Rogers. 
 
 **WS=C^>o 
 
 Fair is the spot, most beautiful the vale ; 
 
 ■-The grassy churchyard hangs 
 
 Upon a slope above the village school. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 107 
 
 COREOPSIS. 
 
 The lovely cottage in the guardian nook, 
 
 -With its own clear brook, 
 
 Its own small pasture, almost its own sky! 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 Far remote 
 
 From such unpleasing sounds as haunt the 
 ear 
 
 In village or in town; the bay of curs 
 Incessant, clinking hammers, grinding wheels, 
 And infants clamorous, whether pleased or 
 pained. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
108 THE FLORAL 
 
 CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
 
 Beneath the shade 
 
 Of solemn oaks that tuft the swelling mounds, 
 Thrown graceful round by Nature’s careless 
 hand. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 Where wealth and commerce lift their golden 
 heads. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 109 
 
 DANDELION. 
 
 A mansion remote 
 
 From the clatter of street-pawing steeds. 
 
 COWPER. 
 
 
 In the open fields- 
 
 And on the mountains. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
110 THE FLORAL 
 
 GOLDEN ROD 
 
 A single small cottage—a nest like a dove’s. 
 
 Wordsworth. ' 
 
 A dale 
 
 With woods o’erhung, and shagged with 
 mossy rocks, 
 
 Whence on each hand the gushing waters 
 play, 
 
 And down the rough cascade white dashing 
 fall, 
 
 Or gleam in lengthened vista thro’ the trees. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
112 TBE FLORAL 
 
 JASMINE. 
 
 A cottage far retired 
 Among the woody windings of a vale, 
 
 By solitude and deep surrounding shades, 
 But more by bashful modesty, concealed. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
 Where palaces and fanes and villas rise, 
 
 And gardens smile around and cultured fields, 
 And fountains gush ; and careless herds and 
 flocks 
 
 Serenely stray; a world within itself, 
 Disdaining all assault. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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 FORTUNE-TELLER. 113 
 
 JOHN’S WORT 
 
 Dear is thy little native vale ; 
 
 The ring-dove builds and murmurs there ; 
 
 Close by thy cot she tells her tale 
 To every passing villager. 
 
 The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, 
 
 And shells his nuts at liberty. 
 
 Rogbks. 
 
 
 Mountains, and vales, and waters, all infused 
 With beauty, and in quietness. 
 
 Southet. 
 
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114 THE FLORAL 
 
 JONQUIL. 
 
 A cottage, 
 
 Perched upon the green hill-top, but close 
 Environed with a ring of branching elms, 
 That overhang the thatch; itself unseen, 
 Peeps at the vale below. 
 
 COWPER. 
 
 In some lone cot amid the distant woods, 
 Sustained alone by providential Heaven. 
 
 Thomson. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 115 
 
 LILY. 
 
 Knowst thou the house? On pillars rests the 
 roof. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 
 The same house where thy father dwelt. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
116 
 
 the floral 
 
 LABURNUM. 
 
 A pleasant city. 
 
 Byron. 
 
 A circular vale, and land-locked, as might 
 seem, 
 
 With brook and bridge, and gray Slone cot¬ 
 tages 
 
 Half hid by rocks and fruit-trees. 
 
 COLERIPGE. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 117 
 
 LOOSE STRIFE. 
 
 On either side the river lie 
 Long fields of barley and of rye, 
 
 That clothe the wold and meet the sky ; 
 And through the field the road runs by. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Remote, unnamed, dull spot, 
 
 The dimmest in the district's map. 
 
 Bykon. 
 
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 FORTUNE-TELLER. 119 
 
 MIGNONETTE. 
 
 That cottage half embowered 
 With modest jessamine, and that sweet spot 
 Of garden ground, when ranged in meet array, 
 Grow countless sweets—the wall-flower and 
 the pink, 
 
 And the thick thyme-bush. 
 
 Kirk White. 
 
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 In proud, and gay, 
 And gain-devoted cities. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 121 
 
 PRIMROSE. 
 
 In the deep umbrage of a green hill’s shade, 
 Which shows a distant prospect far away 
 Of busy cities. 
 
 Byron. 
 
 Woods, rocks, waves surround it. 
 
 Shelley. 
 
1.22 THE FLORAL 
 
 SAFFRON. 
 
 A little lowly hermitage . . . 
 
 Down in a dale, hard by a forest’s side, 
 Far from resort of people. 
 
 Spenser. 
 
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 Ships, and waves, and ceaseless motion. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 123 
 
 SUNFLOWER. 
 
 An old place, full of many a lovely brood, 
 Tall trees, green arbors, and ground-flowers 
 in flocks. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 ct#*®!*** 
 
 Midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men. 
 
 Byron. 
 
124 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 TRUMPET FLOWER. 
 
 A fountain, large and fair, 
 
 A willow, and a ruined hut. 
 
 Spenser. ' 
 
 ] (M In lands beyond the sea. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 125 
 
 VIOLET. 
 
 A lonely dwelling, where the shore 
 Is shadowed with rocks. 
 
 Shelley. 
 
 In forest, copse, and wooded park, 
 
 And mid the city’s strife. 
 
 Hood. 
 
126 THE FLORAL 
 
 WALL-FLOWER. 
 
 -A little lawny islet. 
 
 By anemone and violet, 
 
 Like mosaic, paven. 
 
 Shelley. 
 
 An uninhabited sea-side, 
 Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried, 
 Abandons. 
 
 Shelley. 
 
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FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 12V 
 
 WILLOW. 
 
 Where quiet sounds from hidden rills, 
 Float here and there, like things astray ; 
 And high o’erhead the skylark shrills. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
 
 In the stir and turmoil of the world. 
 
 Coleridge 
 
128 FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 WATER-LILY. 
 
 A realm of pleasance, many a mound, 
 And many a shadow-chequered lawn 
 Full of the city’s stilly sound. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 A broad canal 
 
 From the main river sluiced, where all 
 The sloping of the moonlit sward 
 Is damask work, and deep inlay 
 Of braided blooms unmown, which creep 
 Adown to where the waters sleep ; 
 
 A goodly place! 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
1PAM ¥. 
 
 
 RED, SCARLET, AND 
 FLOWERS. 
 
 PINK 
 
 Describing the Character of your Future 
 Companion. 
 
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FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 131 
 
 BALSA MINE. 
 
 A young lieir, bred to wealth and luxury. 
 
 Shakspeaue. 
 
 A wife 
 
 With wealth enough, and young and beau¬ 
 teous, 
 
 Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman ; 
 Her only fault,—and that is faults enough,— 
 Is, that she is intolerable curst 
 And shrewd and froward; so beyond all 
 measure, 
 
 That I would not wed her for a mine of gold. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
132 THE FLORAL 
 
 CANDY TUFT. 
 
 His eyes have glorious meanings that declare 
 More than the light of common day shines 
 there ; 
 
 A holier triumph, and a sterner aim. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
 A lady far more beautiful 
 
 Than any woman in this waning age. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 133 
 
 CARDINAL FLOWER. 
 
 He speaks three or four languages, word 
 for word, without book, and hath all the good 
 gifts of nature. 
 
 Siiakspeare. 
 
 When she speaks, is it not an alarum to 
 love? She is, indeed, perfection. So delicate 
 with her needle! An admirable musician! 
 Oh she will sing the savageness out of a bear. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
134 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 CATCHFLY. 
 
 A very foolish, fond old man! 
 
 \ Shakspeare. 
 
 
 A shrewd, ill-favored wife, 
 And yet I promise thee she shall be rich, 
 And very rich. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 135 
 
 CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
 
 His ruling passion to create the splendid, 
 
 He can indulge without restraint; can give 
 A princely patronage to every art. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 Will be married to a wealthy widow. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
136 THE FLOKAL 
 
 CLOVER. 
 
 He is true, 
 
 He wears no mask—he hates all crooked 
 ways, 
 
 He is so good, so noble. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 She is not froward, but modest as the dove, 
 She is not hot, but temperate as the morn ; > 
 For patience, she will prove a second Grissel, 
 And Roman Lucrece for chastity. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 137 
 
 DAHLIA. 
 
 He grinds divinity of other days 
 Down into modern use ; transforms old print 
 To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes 
 Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. 
 
 Cowfer. 
 
 Her beauty and her brain go not together. 
 She’s a good sign, hut I have seen small re¬ 
 flection of her wit. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
138 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 EGLANTINE. 
 
 He is one, 
 
 The truest manner’d ; such a holy witch, 
 That he enchants societies unto him ; 
 
 Half all men’s hearts are his. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 She’s an excellent sweet lady, and out of 
 
 \ 
 
 all suspicion, she is virtuous. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 139 
 
 FOUR O’CLOCK 
 
 It is his nature ever to be giving 
 
 » 
 
 And making happy. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 She taketh most delight 
 In music, instruments, and poetry. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
140 THE FLORAL 
 
 GERANIUM. 
 
 Heaven never meant him for that passive 
 thing 
 
 That can be struck and hammer’d out to suit 
 Another’s taste and fancy. He ’ll not dance 
 To every tune of every minister, 
 
 It goes against his nature—he can’t do it. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
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 Two of the sweetest companions in the world. 
 
 Siiakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 141 
 
 GILLY FLOWER. 
 
 A time-pleaser; so crammed, as he thinks, 
 with excellences, that it is his ground of faith, 
 that all that look on him love him. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 She cannot love, 
 
 Nor take no shape nor project of affection, 
 She is so self-endeared. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
142 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 HOLLYHOCK. 
 
 He doth nothing but talk of his horse. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A pleasant-spirited lady. There’s little 
 of the melancholy element in her. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 143 
 
 HONEYSUCKLE. 
 
 He sits ’mongst men like a descended god ; 
 He hath a kind of honor sets him off 
 More than a mortal seeming. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 <**W8t&* 
 
 The prettiest low-born lass that ever 
 Ran on the green sward; nothing she does 
 or seems 
 
 But smacks of something greater than herself. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
144 THE FLORAL 
 
 KALMIA. 
 
 He will hold thee, when his passion shall 
 have spent its novel force, 
 
 Something better than his dog, a little dearer 
 than his horse. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 She is a lady 
 
 So tender of rebukes that words are strokes, 
 And strokes death to her. 
 
 Shaksfeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER.. 145 
 
 LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. 
 
 He’s a man worth any woman. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A body slight and round, like a pear 
 In growing; modest eyes, a hand, a foot 
 Lessening in perfect cadence, and a skin 
 As white and clean as privet when it flowers. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
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146 
 
 THE FLORAL 
 
 MALLOWS. 
 
 The grossness of his nature will have weight 
 to drag thee down. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Eyes 
 
 Darker than darkest pansies ; hair 
 More black than ashbuds in the front of 
 March. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
14-° IKE FI.ORAL 
 
 PHLOX. 
 
 Is of a churlish disposition, 
 
 And little recks to find the way to Heaven 
 By doing deeds of hospitality. 
 
 Shakspeake. 
 
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 Her care shall be 
 
 To comb your noddle with a three legg’d stool, 
 And paint your face, and use you like a fool. 
 
 Shakspeake. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 149 
 
 POPPY. 
 
 Loose in morals and in manners vain. 
 
 In conversation frivolous,, in dress 
 Extreme ; at once rapacious and profuse ; 
 Frequent in park with lady at his side, 
 Ambling, and prattling scandal as he goes, 
 But rare at home, and never at his books, 
 
 Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card; 
 Constant at routs, familiar with a round 
 Of ladyships, a stranger to the poor. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
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 As brown in hue 
 
 As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernel. 
 
 Shakspeaue. 
 
150 THE FLORAL 
 
 PRIMROSE. 
 
 A merchant of incomparable wealth. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 Two; the one as famous for a scolding 
 tongue, 
 
 As is the other for beauteous modesty. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTTTNE-TELLEK. 151 
 
 PEONY. 
 
 Three proper young men ; of excellent growth 
 and presence. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 
 She is a winsome wee thing, 
 
 She is a handsome wee thing, 
 
 She is a bonnie wee thing, 
 
 This sweet wee wife of thine. 
 
 Burns. 
 
152 THE FLORAL 
 
 ROSE. 
 
 A strappan youth ; he takes the mother’s eye. 
 
 Burns. 
 
 
 A woman in her freshest age, 
 
 Of wondrous beauty and of bounty rare, 
 
 Full of great love. 
 
 Spenser. 
 
 
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 FORTUNE-TEL IE R . 153 
 
 SWEET WILLIAM. 
 
 He’s gentle ; never schooled, and yet learn¬ 
 ed ; full of noble device ; of all sorts enchant- 
 ingly beloved. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 She is like a milk-white lamb that bleats 
 For man’s protection. 
 
 Keats. 
 
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154 THE FLORAL 
 
 SWEET PEA. 
 
 A justice 
 
 Iu fair round belly, with good capon lined, 
 With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
 Full of wise saws and modern instances. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 A left-hand, love, imprudent sort of marriage, 
 With an Italian exile’s dark-eyed daughter. 
 
 Byron. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 155 
 
 TULIP. 
 
 His theme divine, 
 
 His office sacred, his credentials clear. 
 
 By him the violated law speaks out 
 
 Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet 
 
 As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
 
 Gracefu. and useful all she does, 
 Blessing and blest where’er she goes. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
156 THE FLORAL 
 
 VERBENA. 
 
 A huge feeder, 
 
 Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day 
 More than the wild-cat. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 **W0#*»° 
 
 An unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised ; 
 Happy in this, she is not yet so old 
 But she may learn; happier than this, 
 
 She is not bred so dull but she can learn; 
 Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit 
 Commits itself to yours to be directed, 
 
 As from her lord, her governor, her king. 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
FORTUNE-TELLER. 157 
 
 VIRGIN’S BOWER. 
 
 He wears his faith but as the fashion of his 
 hat; it ever changes with the next block. 
 
 Skakspeare. 
 
 Oh, but she will love thee truly ; 
 
 Thou shalt have a pleasant home ; 
 
 She will order all things duly, 
 
 When beneath your roof you come. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
158 FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER. 
 
 ZINNIA. 
 
 He is but a landscape painter. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 All of her that’s out of doors, most rich! 
 
 If she be furnished with a mind so rare, 
 
 She is alone the Arabian bird. 
 
 SlIAKSPEARE. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 White Flowers. 
 
 Page 
 
 Apple-Blossom, . . 9 
 Apricot-Blossom, . . 10 
 Anemone, or Wind Flower, 11 
 
 Bachelor’s Button,. 
 
 . 12 
 
 Balsamine, 
 
 . 13 
 
 Blood Root, . 
 
 . 14 
 
 Cal la, . . . 
 
 . 15 
 
 Candy Tuft, . 
 
 . 16 
 
 China Aster, . • 
 
 . 17 
 
 Camellia, 
 
 . 18 
 
 Clematis, 
 
 . 19 
 
 Canterbury Bell, . 
 
 . 20 
 
 Columbine, 
 
 . 21 
 
 Chrysanthemum, . 
 
 . 22 
 
 Dahlia, . . 
 
 . 23 
 
 Daisy, . . . 
 
 . 24 
 
 Daffodil, . 
 
 . 25 
 
 Elder, . . . 
 
 . 26 
 
 Everlasting 1 , . 
 
 . 27 
 
 Hollyhock, 
 
 . 28 
 
 Houstonia, 
 
 . 29 
 
 Honeysuckle, . 
 
 . 30 
 
 Hawthorn, . 
 
 . 31 
 
 \Jasmine, . . 
 
 . 32 
 
 Lily, 
 
 . 33 
 
 Locust, . 
 
 . 34 
 
 Larkspur, 
 
 . 35 
 
 Lemon, . . 
 
 . 36 
 
 Lupine, . 
 
 . 37 
 
 Mallows,. 
 
 . 38 
 
 Myrtle, . 
 
 . 39 
 
 Orange Flower, 
 
 . 40 
 
 Ox-eye, . 
 
 . 41 
 
 Pea-Blossom, . 
 
 . 42 
 
 Petunia, . 
 
 . 43 
 
 Peony, . 
 
 . 44 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Pink, 
 
 
 45 
 
 Poppy, . 
 
 
 46 
 
 •Potato, . . 
 
 . 
 
 47 
 
 Rose, 
 
 Snow-Drop, 
 
 
 48 
 
 . 
 
 49 
 
 Strawberry-Blossom, 
 
 . 
 
 50 
 
 Snowball, . , 
 
 
 51 
 
 Sweet-William, 
 
 
 52 
 
 Spire a, . . . 
 
 . 
 
 53 
 
 Star of Bethlehem, 
 
 , 
 
 54 
 
 Syringa, . 
 
 . 
 
 55 
 
 Verbena, . . 
 
 # 
 
 56 
 
 Violet, . 
 
 
 57 
 
 Yarrow, . 
 
 • 
 
 58 
 
 Blue Flowers. 
 
 Anemone Hepatica, 
 
 61 
 
 Bachelor’s Button, . 
 
 
 62 
 
 Blue-Bell, 
 
 
 63 
 
 China Aster, . • 
 
 
 64 
 
 Columbine, 
 
 # 
 
 6-5 
 
 Forget-Me-Not, 
 
 # 
 
 66 
 
 Gentian, . . . 
 
 . 
 
 67 
 
 Heliotrope, • • 
 
 . 
 
 63 
 
 Hyacinth, . • 
 
 . 
 
 69 
 
 Iris, .... 
 
 # 
 
 70 
 
 vLavender, 
 
 
 71 
 
 Larkspur, . • 
 
 . 
 
 72 
 
 Lobelia, . . 
 
 
 73 
 
 lupine, . 
 
 Monk’s Hood, • 
 
 
 74 
 
 
 75 
 
 Morning Glory, 
 
 
 76 ' 
 
 Periwinkle, . . 
 
 
 77 
 
 Sage, . . 
 
 
 7S 
 
 Vernal Grass,. 
 
 # 
 
 79 
 
 Violet, . . . 
 
 • 
 
 80 
 
160 
 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 Purple Flowers. 
 
 Page 
 
 Nasturtion, • • 
 Primrose, • • 
 
 Page 
 . 120 
 . 121 
 
 Aster, 
 
 
 . 83 
 
 
 . 122 
 
 Bachelor’s Button, 
 
 
 . 84 
 
 
 . 123 
 
 Columbine, . 
 
 
 . 85 , 
 
 ^Trumpet Flower, . 
 
 . 124 
 
 Dahlia, . 
 
 
 . 86 
 
 
 . 125 
 
 Everlasting Pea, 
 
 
 . 87 
 
 
 . 126 
 
 Foxglove, 
 
 
 . 88 
 
 
 . 127 
 
 Geranium, . 
 Lady’s Slipper, 
 
 
 . 89 
 . 90 
 
 Water-Lily, . 
 
 . 128 
 
 Lilac, 
 
 Milkweed, 
 
 
 . 91 
 
 . 92 
 
 Red Flowers. 
 
 Monkey Flower, 
 
 
 . S3 
 
 Balsamine, 
 
 . 131 
 
 Nightshade, . 
 
 
 . 94 
 
 Candy Tuft, . 
 
 . 132 
 
 Orchis, . 
 
 
 . 95 
 
 Cardinal Flower, . 
 
 . 133 
 
 Pansy, 
 
 
 . 96 
 
 Catchfly, 
 
 . 134 
 
 Petunia, . 
 
 
 . 97 
 
 Chrysanthemum, . 
 
 . 135 
 
 >> Polyanthos, 
 
 
 . 98 
 
 Clover, . 
 
 . 136 
 
 Polygala, 
 
 
 . 99 
 
 Dahlia, - 
 
 . 137 
 
 Rhodora, 
 
 
 . 100 
 
 ^Eglantine, 
 
 . 138 
 
 Thistle, . 
 
 
 . 101 
 
 Four O’clock, . 
 
 . 139 
 
 Willow Herb, 
 
 
 . 102 
 
 Geranium, . . 
 
 Gilly Flower, . 
 
 . 140 
 . 141 
 
 Yellow Flowers. 
 
 Hollyhock, 
 Honeysuckle, . 
 
 . 142 
 . 143 
 
 Buttercup, 
 
 
 . 105 
 
 Kalmia, . 
 
 . 144 
 
 Cinquefoil, 
 
 
 . 106 
 
 Love-lies-bleeding, 
 
 . 145 
 
 Coreopsis, 
 
 
 . 107 
 
 Mallows,. 
 
 . 146 
 
 Chrysanthemum, 
 
 
 . 108 
 
 Pink, 
 
 . 117 
 
 Dandelion, 
 
 
 . 109 
 
 Phlox, 
 
 Poppy, . 
 
 . 148 
 
 Golden Rod, . 
 
 
 . 110 
 
 . 149 
 
 Hibiscus,. 
 
 
 . Ill 
 
 Primrose, . • 
 
 . 150 
 
 Jasmine, . . 
 
 
 . 112 
 
 Peony, . . • 
 
 . 151 
 
 John’s Wort, . 
 
 
 . 113 
 
 Rose, . • • 
 
 . 152 
 
 Jonquil, . 
 
 
 . 114 
 
 Sweet William, . 
 
 . 153 
 
 Lily, 
 
 
 . 115 
 
 Sweet Pea, 
 
 . 154 
 
 Laburnum, 
 
 
 . 116 
 
 Tulip, : s : 
 
 : 155 
 
 Loose Strife, . 
 
 
 . 117 
 
 Verbena,: s l 
 
 ! 156 
 
 Marigold, 
 
 
 . 118 
 
 Virgin’s Bower, s 
 
 S 157 
 
 Mignonette, . 
 
 
 . 119 
 
 Zinnia, : : : 
 
 i 158 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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