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Abecedary Abatina .

Acacia .

Acacia, Rose or White . Acacia, Yellow Acanthus Acalia .

Achillea Millefolia Aconite (Wolfsbane) Aconite, Crowfoot . Adonis, Flos .

African Marigold . Agnus Castus Agrimony Almond (Common).

Volubility.

. Fickleness.

. Friendship.

. Elegance.

. Secret love.

. The pine arts. Artifice.

. Temperance.

. War.

. Misanthropy.

. Lustre.

. Painful recollections.

. Vtilgar minds.

. Coldness. Indifference.

. Thankfulness. Gratitude. . Stupidity. Indiscretion.

334Almond (Flowering)

Almond, Laurel Allspice .

Aloe	....

Althaea 1* rutex (Syrian Mallow) .... Alyssum (Sweet) .

Amaranth (Globe) .

Amaranth (Cockscomb). Amaryllis .	.	.

Ambrosia	.

American Cowslip .

American Elm American Linden .

American Starwort

Amethysi .	.	.	.

Anemone (Zephyr Flower) Anemone (Garden).

Angelica .... Angrec .

Apple ..... Apple (Blossom)

Apple, Thorn Apocynum (Dog’s Vane) Arbor Vitae ....

Arum (Wake Robin) Ash-leaved Trumpet Flower . Ash Tree .... Aspen Tree .

Aster (China).

Asphodel .	.	.	.

Auricula .... Auricula, Scarlet . Austurtium .... Azalea .....

Hope.

Perfidy

Compassion.

Grief. Religious supersti

Persuasion.

Worth beyond beauty.

1 mmortality. Unfading Foppery. Affectation. Pride. Timidity. Spl, beauty.

Love returned.

Divine beauty.

Patriotism.

hlatrimony.

Welcome to a strang Cheerfulness in old aj Admiration.

Sickness. Expectation. Forsaken.

1 nspiration.

R oyalty.

Temptation.

Preference. Fame sp-caks great and good. Deceitful charms.

Deceit,

Unchanging Friendship Live Jor me.

Ardour.

Separation.

Grandeur.

Lamentation.

Variety. Afterthought. ]\Jy regrets follow you to grave.

Painting.

Avarice.

Splendour.

T\mferance.

8Bachelor’s Buttons.

Balm .... Balm, Gentle .

Balm of Gilead Balsam, Red .	,

Balsam, Yellow Barberry Barberry Tree Basil .... Bay Leaf .	.	.

Bay (Rose) Rhododendron Bay Tree Bay Wreath .

Bearded Crepis Beech Tree Bee Orchis Bee Ophrys .

Belladonna

Bell Flower, Pyramidal. Bell Flower (small white)

. Celilacy.

Sympathy.

Pleasantry.

Cure. Relief.

Touch me not. Impatient resolves.

Impatience.

Sourness of temper. Sharpness.

Hatred.

I change but in death. Danger. Be'.vare.

Glory.

Reward of merit. Protection.

Prosperity.

Industry.

Error.

Silence

Constancy.

Gratitude.

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Belvedere Betony .

Bilberry .

Bindweed, Great .

Bindweed, Small .

Birch

Birdsfoot Trefoil . Bittersweet; Nightshade Black Poplar .

Blackthorn Bladder Nut Tree .

Bluebottle (Centaury) Bluebell .

Blue-flowered Greek Valerian Borus Henricus Borage .

Box Tree Bramble .

Branch of Currants Branch of Thorns .

Bridal Rose .

Broom .	.

Buckbean Bud of White Rose Bugloss .

Bulrush .

Bundle of Reeds, with Panicles .

Burdock.	.	.

Buttercup (Kingcup) Butterfly Orchis Butterfly Weed

their

I declare against you. Surprise.

Treachery.

Insinuation.

Humility.

Meekness.

Revenge.

Truth.

Courage.

Diffictilty.

Frivolity. A musement. Delicacy.

Constancy.

Rupture.

Goodness.

Bluntness.

Stoicism.

Lowliness. Envy. Remorse You please all.

Severity. R igour.

Happy love.

Humility. Neatness.

Calm repose.

Heart ignorant of love. Falsehood.

Indiscretion. Docility.

Music.

Importunity.

Ingratitude.

Gaiety.

Let me go.

Touch me not. Childishness.

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Cabbage .... Cacalia .... Cactus .	.	.

Calla iEthiopica . Calycanthus .

Camellia Japcsnica, Red Camellia Japonica, White Camomile Canary Grass .

Candytuft Canterbury Bell Cape Jasmine Cardamine .	' .

Carnation, Deep Red Carnation, Striped . Carnation, Yellow .

Profit.

Adulation.

Warmth.

Magnificent Beajity. Benevolence.

Unpretending excellence. Perfected loveliness.* Energy in adversity. Perseverance. Indifference.

A cknowledgement.

Pm too happy.

Paternal error.

A las ! for my poor heart. Refusal.

Disdain.

iiCardinal Flower . Catchfly .... Catchfly, Red Catchfly, White Cedar .... Cedar of Lebanon . Cedar Leaf .

Celandine (Lesser). Cereus (Creeping) . Centaury Champignon . Chequered Fritillary Cherry Tree .

Cherry Tree, White Chesnut Tree . Chickweed

Chicory .... China Aster .

China Aster, Double China Aster, Single China or Indian Pink China Rose

Chinese Chrysanthemum Christmas Rose Chrysanthemum, Red . Chrysanthemum, White Chrysanthemum, Yellow Cinquefoil

Circaea .... Cistus, or Rock Rose . Cistus, Gum .

Citron .... Clematis.... Clematis, Evergreen Clotbur .

Cloves .	.	.

Clover, Four-leaved Clover, Red .

Clover, White Cobaea ,	.	.

Cockscomb Amaranth .

. Distinction.	,

. Snare.

Youthful love.

. Betrayed.

. Strength.

Incorruptible.

. I live for thee.

. Joys to come.

. Modest geni us.

. Delicacy.

. Suspicion.

. PersecutioJi.

. Good education.

Deception.

. Do vie justice. Luxury.

. Rendezvous.

. Frugality.

. Variety.

. I partake your sentiments.

. I will think of it.

. Aversion.

. Beauty always new.

. Cheerfulness under adversity. . Relieve my anxiety.

. I love.

. Truth.

. Slighted love.

. Maternal affection.

. Spell.

. Popular favour.

. I shall die to-morrow.

. Ill-natured beauty.

. Mental beauty.

. Poverty.

. Rudeness. Pertinacity.

. Dignity.

. Be mine.

. Industry.

. Think of me.

. Gossip.

. Foppery. Affectation. Singularity.

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12Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron

Coltsfoot .	.

Columbine Columbine, Pnrple Columbine, Red . Convolvulus . Convolvulus, Blue (Minor) Convolvulus, Major Convolvulus, Pink .

Corchorus

Coreopsis

Coreopsis Arkansa . Coriander

Corn	...

Corn, Broken .

Corn Straw Corn Bottle Corn. Cockle .

Cornel Tree Coronella

Cowslip .... Cowslip, American

Cranberry	.	.

Creeping Cereus Cress .... Crocus .... Crocus, Spring Crocus, Saffron Crown Imperial

My best days are fast.

Justice s/iatl be done.

Folly.

Resolved to win.

Anxious and tremlling.

Bonds.

Repose. \ ight.

Extinguished hopes.

IVorth sustained by judicious and tender affection. Impatient oj absence.

Always cheerful.

Love at first sight.

Hidden worth.

R iches.

Quarrel.

Agreement.

Delicacy.

Gentility.

Duration. '

Success crown your wishes. Pensiveness. IVin n ing grace. Divine beauty. You are my divinity.

Cure for heartache.

Horror.

Stability. Power.

Abuse not.

Youthful gladness. '

Mirth.

Majesty. Power.Crowsbill

Crowfoot

Crowfoot (Aconite-leaved) Cuckoo Plant .

Cudweed, American Currant .... Cuscuta .... Cyclamen

Cypress ....

. Envy.

. Ingratitude.

. Lustre.

. A rdour.

. Uneeasing remembrance.

Thy frown will kill me.

. Meanness.

. Diffidence.

. Death. Mourning.

14Daffodil .

Dahlia .

Daisy

Daisy, Garden Daisy, Michaelmas Daisy, Party-coloured Daisy, Wild .

Damask Rose Dandelion Daphne Odora Darnel (Ray grass). Dead Leaves .

Dew Plant Dittany of Crete . Dittany of Crete, White Dock

Dodder of Thyme . Dogsbane Dogwood Dragon Plant Dragonwort .	.

Dried Flax

. Regard.

. Instability.

. Innocence.

. I share your sentiments . Farewell.

. Beauty.

. I will think of it.

. Brilliant complexion.

. Rustic oracle.

. Painting the lily.

. Vice . Sadness.

. A Serenade.

. Birth.

. Passion.

. P-atience.

. Baseness.

. Deceit. Falsehood.

. Durability.

. Snare.

. Horror.

. Utility.

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Ebony Tree .

Eglantine (Sweetbrier) . Elder .... Elm .... Enchanter’s Nightshade Endive .... Eupatorium . Everflowering Candytuft Evergreen Clematis Evergreen Thorn . Everlasting Everlasting Pea

Blackness.

Foetry. 'I wound to heal. Zealonsness.

Dignity.

Witchcraft. Sorcery. Frugality.

Delay.

Indifference.

Poi'erty.

Solace in adversity. Never-ceasing remembrance. Lasting pleasure.

16Fennel Fern

Ficoides, Ice Plant

Fig •

Fig Marigold .

Fig Tree Filbert .

Fir .	.

Fir Tree .

Flax

Flax-leaved Goldy-locks Fleur-de-Lis . Fleur-de-Luce Flowering Fern Flowering Reed Flower-of-an- H ou r Fly Orchis

Worthy all praise. Fascination.

Your looks freeze me. Argument.

Idleness.

Prolific.

Reconciliation

Time.

Elevation.

Domestic Industry. Fate.

I feel your kindness. Tardiness.

Flame. I burn.

Fire.

R everie.

Confidence in Heaven. Delicate beauty.

Error.

i7Flytrap .

Fool’s Parsley Forget Me Not Foxglove Foxtail Grass . French Honeysuckle French Marigold . French Willow Frog Ophrys . Fuller’s Teasel Fumitory

Fuchsia, Scarlet .

Deceit.

Silliness.

True love. Forget me not. Insincerity.

Sporting.

Rustic beauty.

Jealousy.

Bravery and humanity. Disgust.

Misanthropy.

Spleen.

Taste.Garden Anemone . Garden Chervil Garden Daisy Garden Marigold . Garden Ranunculus Garden Sage .

Garland of Roses . Germander Speedwell Geranium, Dark Geranium, Ivy Geranium, Lemon . Geranium, Nutmeg Geranium, Oak-leaved Geranium, Pencilled Geranium, Rose-scented Geranium, Scarlet . Geranium, Silver-leaved Geranium, Wild

.• Forsaken.

. Sincerity.

. /partake your sentiments.

. Uneasiness.

You are rich in attractions. . Esteem.

. Reward of virtue.

. Facility.

. Melancholy.

. Bridal favour.

. Unexpected meeting.

. Expected meeting.

. True friendship.

. Ingenuity.

. Prefetence.

. Comforting. Stupidity.

. Recall.

. Steadfast piety.Gillyflower Glory Flower Goat’s Rue Golden Rod Gooseberry Gourd Grape, Wild Grass

Guelder Rose

. Bonds of affection.

. Glorious beauty.

Reason.

. Precaution.

Anticipation.

. Extent. Bulk.

. Charity.

. Submission. Utility. . Winter. Age.Hand Flower Tree Harebell	.

Hawkweed	.

Hawthorn	.

Hazel....................

Heath....................

Helenium	.

Heliotrope	.

Hellebore	.

Helmet Flower	(Monkshood).

Hemlock	.

Hemp.....................

Henbane	.	.	.	.

Hepatica	....

Hibiscus	.	.

Holly .	.	.	.

Holly Herb	.	.	.	.

Hollyhock	....

Honesty..................

Warning;.

Submission. Grief. Quicksightedness.

Ho/el^k

ft econciliation.

Solitude.

Tears.

Devotion. Faithfulness. Scandal. Calmnny. Knight-errantry.

You will be my death. Fate.

1 mperfection.

Confidence.

Delicate beauty. Foresight.

Enchantment.

Ambition. Fecundity. Honesty. Fascination.

21Honey Flower . ,	. Love sweet and secret.
Honeysuckle .	. Generous and devoted affection.
Honeysuckle Coral)	. The colour of my fate.
Honeysuckle (French) .	. Rustic beauty.
Hop ....	. Injustice.
Hornbeam	. Ornament.
Horse Chesnut	. Luxury.
Hortensia	. You are cold.
Houseleek	. Vivacity. Domestic industry.
Houstonia	. Content.
Hoya ....	. Sculpture.
Humble Plant	. Despondency.
Hundred-leaved Rose .	. Dignity of mind. .
Hyacinth	. Sport. Game. Play.
Hyacinth, White .	. Unobtrusive loveliness.
Hydrangea	. A boaster. Heartlessness.
Hyssop ...	. Cleanliness.Iceland Moss .

Ice Plant	.	...

Imperial Montague Indian Cress .

Indian Jasmine (Ipomoea) Indian Pink (Double) . Indian Plum Iris.	.	•	•

Iris, German .

Ivy....................

Ivy, Sprig of, with tendrils

Health.

Your looks freeze me Power.

Warlike trophy.

A ttachment.

A Iways lovely. Privation.

Message.

Flame.

Fidelity. Marriage. Assiduous to please.



Jacob’s Ladder Japan Rose . Jasmine .

Jasmine, Cape Jasmine, Carolina . Jasmine, Indian Jasmine, Spanish . Jasmine, Yellow . Jonquil .

Judas Tree Juniper .

Justicia .	. *

. Come down.

. Beauty is your only attraction. . Amiability.

. Transport of joy.

. Separation.

. I attach myself to you.

. Sensuality.

. Grace and elegance.

. J desire a return of affection.

. Unbelief. Betrayal.

. Succour. Protection.

. The perfection of female loveliness.

£4,Laburnum .	.	.

Lady's Slipper

Lagerstrsemia, Indian . Lantana .... Larch .... Larkspur Larkspur, Pink Larkspur, Purple .

Laurel .... Laurel, Common, in flower Laurel, Ground Laurel, Mountain . Laurel-leaved Magnolia. Laurestina Lavender I Leaves(dead)

Lemon .... Lemon Blossoms . Lettuce .

Lichen ....

Forsaken. Pensive Beauty. Capricious Beauty. IVin me and wear me.

Eloquence.

R igour.

Audacity. Boldness. Lightness. Levity.

Fickleness.

Haughtiness.

Glory.

Perfidy.

Perseverance.

A mbition.

Dignity.

A token. I die if neglected. Distrust.

Melancholy.

Zest.

Fidelity in lo7>e. Cold-heartedness.

Dejection. Solitude.Lilac, Field .

Lilac, Purple .

Lilac, White .

Lily, Day Lily, Imperial Lily, White .

Lily, Yellow .

Lily of the Valley . Linden or Lime Trees Lint

Live Oak Liverwort Licorice, Wild Lobelia .

Locust Tree .

Locust Tree (green) London Pride Lote Tree Lotus

Lotus Flower.

Lotus Leaf Love in a Mist Love lies Bleeding . Lucem .

Lupine .

Humility.

First emotions of love. Youthful Innocence.

Coquetry.

Majesty.

Purity. Sweetness. Falsehood. Gaiety.

Return of happiness. Conjugal love.

/ feel my obligations.

L iberty.

Confidence.

I declare against yon. Malevolence.

Elegance.

Affection beyond the grave. Frivolity.

Concord.

Eloquence.

Estranged love.

R ecantation.

Perplexity.

Hopeless, not heartless.

Life.

Voraciousness. I mag ina tion.

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1 1 ii mi	ii nniinu'»|iTii*w~|Mallow, Marsh ^ Mallow, Syrian Mallow, Venetian . Manchineal Tree Mandrake Maple Marigold.

Marigold, African . Marigold, French . Marigold, Prophetic Marigold and Cypress Marjoram Marvel of Peru

. Horror.

. Reserve.

. Grief.

Vulgar minds. . Jealousy.

. Prediction.

. Despair. Blushes.

Timidity.

. Beneficence.

. Consumed by love. . Delicate beauty.

. Falsehood.

Madder . Magnolia Magnolia, Swamp Mallow .

Mildness.

Calumny.

Lm>e of Nature. Perseverance.

28Meadow Lychnis Meadow Saffron Meadowsweet Mercury .

Mesembryanthemum Mezereon Michaelmas Daisy Mignionette .

Milfoil .

Milkvetch Milkwort

Mimosa (Sensitive Plant) Mint Mistletoe Mock Orange.

Monkshood (Helmet Flower). Moonwort Morning Glory Moschatel Moss Mosses .

Mossy Saxifrage Motherwort .

Mountain Ash Mourning Bride

Mouse-eared Chickweed Mouse-eared Scorpion Grass Moving Plant.

Mudwort Mug wort

Mulberry Tree (Black) Mulberry Tree (White) Mushroom Musk Plant .

Mustard Seed Myrobalan Myrrh Myrtle .

Wit.

My best days are past. Uselessness.

Goodness.

Idleness.

Desire to please.

Afterthough t.

Your qualities surpass your charms.

War.

Your presence softens my pains. Hermitage.

Sensitiveness.

Virtue.

I surmount difficulties. Counterfeit.

Chivalry. Knight-errantry. Forgetfulness.

Affectation.

Weakness.

Maternal love.

Ennui.

Apfection.

Concealed love.

Prudence.

Unfortunate attachment.

I have lost all.

Ingenuous simplicity.

Forget me not.

Agitation.

I'ranquillity.

Happiness.

I shall not survive you.

Wisdom.

Suspicion.

Weakness.

Indifference.

Privation.

Gladness.

Love.



29Narcissus Nasturtium Nettle, Burning Nettle Tree . Night-blooming Cereus .

Night Convolvulus Nightshade .

Egotism.

Patriotism.

Slander.

Concert.

Transient

beauty.

Night.

Truth.1

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Oak Leaves . Oak Tree Oak (White) . Oats Oleander Olive

Orange Blossoms

. Bravery.

. Hospitality.

. Independence.

. The witching soul of music. . Beware.

. Peace.

. Your purity equals your

Orange Flowers Orange Tree . Orchis Osier Osmunda Ox Eye .

loveliness.

Chastity. Bridal festivities. Generosity.

A Belle.

Frankness.

Dreams.

Patience.

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Palm	. . Victory.
Pansy	. . Thoughts.
Parsley .	. Festivity.
Pasque Flower	. You have no claims.
Passion Flower	. Religious superstition.
Patience Dock	. Patience.
Pea, Everlasting .	. . An appointed meeting. Lasting Pleasure.
Pea, Sweet	. . Departure.
Peach	. . Your qualities, like yo;  charms, are unequal
Peach Blossom	. . 1 am your captive.
Pear	. Affection.
Pear Tree	. . Comfort.
Pennyroyal .	. . Flee aivay.
Peony	. . Shame. Bashfulness.
Peppermint .	. . Warmth of feeling.
Periwinkle, Blue .	. . Early friendship.
Periwinkle, White .	. . Pleasures of memory.
Persicaria	* . . Restoration.

32Persimon

Peruvian Heliotrope Pheasant ’| Eye . Phlox

Pigeon Berry .

Pimpernel

Pine

Pine-apple Pine, Pitch Pine, Spruce .

Pink

Pink, Carnation Pink, Indian, Double Pink, Indian, Single Pink, Mountain Pink, Red, Double Pink, Single .

Pink, Variegated . Pink, White .

Plane Tree Plum, Indian .

Plum Tree Plum, Wild . Polyanthus Polyanthus, Crimson Polyanthus, Lilac . Pomegranate .	.

Pomegranate, Flower Poplar, Black Poplar, White Poppy, Red .

Poppy, Scarlet Poppy, White

Potato.................

. Bury me amid Natures beauties.

. Devotion.

. R emembrance.

. Unanimity.

. Indifference.

. Change. Assignation.

. Pity.

. You are perfect.

. Philosophy.

. Hope in adversity.

, Boldness.

* Woman s loz>e.

. Always loz'ely.

. Aversion.

. Aspiring.

. Pure and ardent love.

. Pure love.

. Refusal.

. Ingeniousness. Talent.

. Genius.

. Privation.

. Fidelity.

. Independence.

. Pride of riches.

. The heart’s mystery.

. Confdence.

. Foolishness.

. Mature elegance.

* Courage.

. Time.

. Consolation.

. Fantastic extravagance.

. Sleep. My bane. My antidote.

. Benevolence.

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Prickly Pear . Pride of China Primrose

Primrose, Evening Primrose, Red Privet

Purple Clover Pyrus Japonica

Satire.

Dissension.

Early youth. Inconstancy. Unpatronized merit. Prohibition. Provident.

Fairies' fire.

341Ragged Robin Ranunculus	.

Ranunculus, Garden Ranunculus, Wild . Raspberry Ray Grass	.	.

Red Catch fl y .

Reed .... Reed, Split

Rhododendron (Rosebay) Rhubarb

Rocket .	.	.	.

Rose .	.

Rose, Austrian Rose, Bridal .

Rose, Burgundy Rose, Cabbage Rose, Campion Rose, Carolina Rose, China .

Rose, Christmas

Wit.

You are radiant with charms. You are rich in attractions. Ingratitude.

Remorse.

Vice.

Youthful love.

Complaisance. Music. Indiscretion.

Danger. Beware.

Advice.

Rivalry.

Love.

Thou art all that is lovely. Happy loz'e.

Unconscious beauty. Ambassador of love.

Only deserve my love.

Love is dangerous.

Beauty always new. Tranquillize my anxiety.Rose, Daily .

Rose, Damask Rose, Deep Red Rose, Dog .

Rose, Guelder Rose, Hundred-leaved . Rose, Japan .... Rose, Maiden Blush

Rose, Multiflora	.	.	.

Rose, Mundi .

Rose, Musk .... Rose, Musk, Cluster Rose, Single .... Rose, Thornless	.	.

Rose, Unique

Rose, White .... Rose, White (withered) .

Rose, Yellow .... Rose, York and Lancaster Rose, Full-blown, placed over two Buds

Rose, White and Red

together............

Roses, Crown of	.	.

Rosebud, Red Rosebud, White Rosebud, Moss Rosebay (Rhododendron) Rosemary .... Rudbeckia ....

Rue.....................

Rush ..... Rye Grass...............

Thy smile 1 aspire to.

Brilliant complexion.

Bashful shame.

Pleasure andpaiti.

Winter. Age.

Pride.

Beauty is your only attraction. If you love me, you will find it out.

Grace.

V%riety.

Capricious beauty.

Charming.

Simplicity.

Early attachment.

Call me not beautiful.

/ am worthy of you.

Transient impressions. Decrease of love. Jealously. War.

Secrecy.

Unity.

Reward of virtue.

Pure and lovely.

Girlhood.

Confession of love.

Beware. Danger.

R emembrance.

J ustice.

Disdain.

Docility.

Changeable disposition

37Saffron ....................

Saffron Crocus Saffron, Meadow .

Sage........................

Sage, Garden .... Sainfoin .	.	.	.

Saint John’s Wort .

Sardony ....................

Saxifrage, Mossy .

Scabious ...................

Scabious, Sweet Scarlet Lychnis

Schinus.....................

Scotch Fir .

Sensitive Plant	.	.

Senvy ......................

Shamrock .

Snakesfoot .

Bezvare of excess.

Mirth.

My happiest days are past. Domestic virtue.

Esteem.

Agitation.

A nimosity. Superstition. Irony.

Aflection.

Unfortunate love.

Widozvhood.

Sunbeaming eyes.

Religious enthusiasm. Elevation.

Sensibility. Delicate feelings. Indifference.

Light heartedness.

Horror.

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Snapdragon . Snowball Snowdrop Sorrel

Sorrel, Wild .

Sorrel, Wood . Southernwood Spanish Jasmine Spearmint Speedwell

Speedwell, Germander Speedwell, Spiked . Spider, Ophn s Spiderwort Spiked Willow Herb Spindle Tree .

Star of Bethlehem . Starwort .

Starwort, American Stock .	.	.

Stock, Ten Week Stonecrop Straw, Broken Straw, Whole . Strawberry Tree Sumach, Venice

Sunflower, Dwarf . Sunflower, Tall Swallow-wort.

Sweet Basil . Sweetbrier, American Sweetbrier, European Sweetbrier, Yellow Sweet Pea Sweet Sultan .

Sweet William Sycamore Syringa .

Syringa, Carolina .

. Presumption.

. Bound.

. Hope.

. Ajfection.

Wit ill-timed.

• Joy.

. Jest. Bantering.

. Sensuality.

Warmth of sentiment.

. Female fidelity.

. Facility.

. Semblance.

. Adroitness.

. Esteem not love.

. Pretension.

Your charms are engraven my heart.

. Purity.

. Afterthought.

. Cheerfulness in old age.

. Lasting beauty.

. Promptness.

. Tranquillity.

. Rupture of a contract.

. Union.

. Esteem and love.

. Splendour. Intellectual excellence.

. Adoration.

. Haughtiness.

. Cure for heartache.

. Good wishes.

. Simplicity.

. I wound to heal.

. Decrease of love.

. Delicate pleasures.

. Felicity.

. Gallantry.

. Curiosity.

. Memory.

. Disappointment.

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39Tamarisk .	.	.	.

Tansy (Wild). .

Teasel .... Tendrils of Climbing Plants Thistle, Common Thistle, Fullers .

Thistle, Scotch .

Thorn Apple Thorn, Branch of Thrift

Throat wort.

Thyme.

Tiger Flower Traveller’s Joy Tree of Life Trefoil.

Crime.

I declare war against you Misanthropy.

Ties.

A usterity.

Misanthropy

Retaliation.

Deceitful charms.

Severity.

Sympathy.

Neglected beauty.

Activity.

For once may pride befriend me. Safety.

Old age.

Revenge.

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waaauvMKMTremella Nestoc Trillium Pictum Truffle .... Trumpet Flower Tuberose Tulip	. • .

Tulip, Red Tulip, Variegated . Tulip, Yellow Turnip .	.	.

Tussilage (Sweet-scented)

Resistance.

Modest beauty.

Surprise.

Fame.

Dangerous pleasures. Fame.

Declaration of love. Beautiful eyes.

Hopeless love.

Charity.

Justice shall be done you.V alerian .

Valerian, Greek Venice Sumach

Venus’ Car Venus' Looking-glass Venus’ Trap . Vernal Grass . Veronica .

Vervain .

Vine

Violet, Blue Violet, Dame . Violet, Sweet . Violet, Yellow . Virginian Spiderwort Virgin’s Bower. Volkamenia

. A n accommodating disposition.

. R uptur.e.

. Intellectual excellence Splendour.

. Fly with me.

. Flattery.

. Deceit.

. Poor, but happy.

. Fidelity.

. Enchantment.

. Intoxication. ■

. Faithfulness.

Watchfulness.

. Modesty.

. Rural happiness.

. Momentary happiness. . Filial love.

. May you be happy.Intellect. Stratagem. Fidelity in adversity. Purity of heart. ■Bulkiness.

S usceptibility.

Riches.

A nger.

A miableness.

Purity and Modesty. Good nature.

Independence.

Talent.

Time.

Death preferable to loss of innocence.

Treason.

Love forsaken. Freedom.

Walnut Wall-flower Water Lily Water Melon Wax Plant Wheat Stalk Whin White Jasmine White Lily . White Mullein. White Oak White Pink White Poplar . White Rose (dried]

Whortleberry . Willow, Creeping Willow, Water

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Willow, Weeping . Willow-Herb . Willow, French Winter Cherry Witch Hazel . Woodbine Wood Sorrel . Wormwood

Mourning.

Pretension.

Bravery and humanity. Deception.

A spell.

Fraternal love.

Joy. Maternal tenderness. Absence.

44Xanthium

Xeranthemum

R uaeness. Pertinacity. Cheerfulness under adversity.

45IZephyr Flower .	.	. Expectation.

Zinnia....................Thoughts of absent friendsAbsence Abuse not Acknowledgment Activity Admiration .

Adoration Adroitness Adulation Advice .

Affection Affection Affection Affection beyond the grave Affection, maternal Affectation .

Affectation .

Afterthought Afterthought Afterthought Agreement .

Age .

Agitation Agitation

Alas! for my poor heart Always cheerful .

Always lovely Ambassador of love

IVomnwood.

Crocus.

Canterbury Bell. Thyme.

A methyst.

Dwarf Sunflower Spider Oplirys. Cacalia.

Rhubarb.

Mossy Saxifrage. Pear.

Sorrel.

Green Locust. Citiquefoil.

Cockscomb Amaranth. Morning Glory. Michaelmas Daisy. Starwort.

China A ster.

Straw.

Guelder Rose.

Moving Plant. Sainfoin.

Deep Red Carnation. Coreopsis.

Indian Pink (double). Cabbage Rose.

48LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

1

Amiability .	.

Anger .	.

Animosity Anticipation . Anxious and trembl Ardour .

Argument	.	.

Arts or artifice Assiduous to please Assignation . Attachment . Audacity Avarice.

Aversion

ing

Jasmine.

Whin.

St.John's Wort. Gooseberry.

Red Columbine.

Cuckoo Plant.

Fig.

Acanthus.

Sprig of Ivy with tendrils. Pimpernel.

Indian Jasmine.

Larch.

Scarlet A uricula.

China or Indian Pink.

Bantering Baseness Bashfulness Bashful shame Beautiful eyes Beauty .

Beauty always new Beauty, capricious Beauty, capricious Beauty, delicate .

Beauty, delicate .

Beauty, divine .

Beauty, glorious .

Beauty, lasting .

Beauty, magnificent Beauty, mental Beauty, modest .

Beauty, neglected Beauty, pensive .

Beauty, rustic Beauty, unconscious Beauty is your only attraction Belle .

Be mine Beneficence Benevolence Betrayed Beware Beware .

Blackness Bluntness Blushes Boaster Boldness Bonds .

Sou themwood.

Dodder of Thyme. Peony.

Deep Red Rose. Variegated Tulip.

Party-coloured Daisy. China Rose.

Lady's Slipper.

Musk Rose.

Flower of an Hour. Hibiscus.

American Cowslip. Glory Flower.

Stock.

Calla sEthiopica. Clematis.

Trillium Pic turn.

Throatwort.

Laburnum.

French Honeysuckle. Burgundy Rose.

Japan Rose.

Orchis.

Four-leaved Clover.

Marshmallow.

Potato.

White Catchjly. Oleander,

Rosebay. •

Ebony Tree.

Borage.

Marjoram.

Hydrangea.

Pink.	■

Convolvulus.

49LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Bonds of Affection Bravery .... Bravery and humanity Bridal favour Brilliant complexion

Bulk......................

Busybody .... Bury me amid Nature s beauties

Call me not beautiful .

Calm repose .	.	.

Calumny .... Calumny .... Change .... Changeable disposition Charity..... Charming .... Charms, deceitful Cheerfulness in old age Cheerfulness under adversity Chivalry .... Cleanliness .... Coldheartedness .

Coldness .... Colour of my life .

Come down .... Comfort .... Comforting .... Compassion .... Concealed love Concert .... Concord .... Confession of love Confidence .... Confidence .... Confidence .... Confidence in Heaven . Conjugal love

Consolation .... Constancy .... Consumed by love Counterfeit .... Courage .... Crime .

Cure......................

Cure for heartache Curiosity ....

Danger .... Dangerous Pleasures .

Gillyflower.

Oak Leaves.

French Willow.

Ivy Geranium.

Damask Rose.

Water Melon. Gourd. Quamoclit.

Persimon.

Rose Unique.

Buckbean.

Hellebore.

Madder.

Pimpernel.

Rye Grass.

T urnip.

Cluster of Musk Roses. Thorn Apple.

American Starwort.

Chinese Chrysanthemum. Monkshood {Helmet Flower). Hyssop.

Lettuce.

Agnus Castus.

Coral Honeysuckle.

Jacob's Ladder.

Pear Tree.

Scarlet Geranium.

A llspice.

Motherwort.

Nettle Tree.

Lote Tree.

Moss Rosebud.

Hepatica.

Lilac Polya?ithus. Liverwort.

Flowering Reed.

Lime, or Linden Tree.

Red Poppy.

Bluebell.

Syrian Mallow.

Mock Orange.

Black Poplar.

Tamarisk.

Balm of Gilead. Swallow-wort.

Sycamore.

Rhododendron. R osebay. Tuberose.LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Death .... Death preferable to loss of Deceit .

Deceit .

Deceit .

Deceitful charms Deception Declaration of love Decrease of love Delay .

Delicacy Dejection Desire to please Despair Despondency Devotion Difficulty Dignity Dignity

Disappointment Disdain Disdain Disgust Dissension .

Distinction .

Distrust Divine beauty Docility < .

Domestic industry Domestic virtue Durability .

Duration

innocence

Cypress.

White Rose (dried). Apocynum.

Flytrap.

Dogs bane.

Thorn Apple.

White Cherry Tree.

Red Tulip.

Yellow Rose. Eupatorium.

Bluebottle. Centaury. Lichen.

Mezereon.

Cypress.

Humble Plant.

Peruvian Heliotrope. Blackthorn.

Cloves.

Laurel-leaved Magnolia. Carolina Syringa. Yellow Carnation.

Rue.

Frog Ophrys.

Pride of China. Cardinal Flower. Lavender.

American Co'ivslip.

R ush.

Flax.

Sage.

Dogwood.

Cornel Tree.

Early attachment Early friendship Early youth . Elegance Elegance and grace Elevation Eloquence . Enchantment Enchantment Energy in adversity Envy .

Error .	«

Error .	.

Esteem

Esteem not love Esteem and love Estranged love

Thornless Rose.

Blue Periwinkle. Primrose.

Locust Tree.

Yellow Jasmine. Scotch Fir.

Indian Lagerstramia. Holly Herb.

Vervain.

Camomile.

Bramble.

Bee Ophrys.

Fly Orchis.

Garden Sage. Spiderwort. Strawberry Tree. Lotus Flower.

5iLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Excellence....................

Expectation...................

Expectation...................

Expected meeting

Extent........................

Extinguished hopes

Facility......................

Fairies’fire .	.

Faithfulness .

Faithfulness ..... Falsehood .

Falsehood.....................

Falsehood.....................

Fame .	.	'	.

Fame speaks him great and good Fantastic extravagance Farewell .	.	.	.	.

Fascination .

Fascination .	...	.

Fashion.......................

Fecundity	.

Felicity	.	.	.

Female fidelity	.

Festivity	.	.

Fickleness	.	.	...

Fickleness	.	.	.	.	,.

Filial love .	...

Fidelity......................

Fidelity	.	.	.	.	.

Fidelity in adversity ,

Fidelity in	love	.	.	.	,

Fire ...	.	.	.

First emotions of love .	.	.

Flame ......

Flattery	.	.	.	.	.

Flee away	.	.	...

Fly with me.	.

Folly .	.	.	' .

Foppery	.

Foolishness .	...	.

Foresight .	...	.

Forgetfulness	.

Forget me not	.	.	.	.

For once may pride befriend me . Forsaken ......

Forsaken .	...	.

Frankness	.

F ratemal love	.

Freedom	.	.	.

Camellia Jaftonica.

A nemone.

Zephyr Flower.

Nutmeg Geranium. Gourd.

Major Convolvulus.

Germander Speedwell. Cyrus Japonica,

Blue Violet.

Heliotrope.

Buglass.

Yellow Lily.

Manchineal Tree.

Tulip. Trumpet Flower. Apple Blossom.

Scarlet Poppy. Michaelmas Daisy.

Fern.

Honesty.

Queen's Rocket. Hollyhock.

Sweet Sultan.

Speedwell.

Parsley.

Abatina.

Pink Larkspur.

Virgin’s bower.

Veronica. Ivy.

Plum Tree.

Wall-flower.

Lemon Blossoms. Fleur-de-L uce.

Purple Lilac.

Fleur-de-lis. Iris.

Venus' Looking-glass. Pennyroyal.

Venus’ Car.

Columbine.

Cockscomb Amaranth. Pomegranate.

Holly.

Moonwort.

Forget Me Not. „

Tiger Flower-Garden A neijione. Laburnum.

Osier.

Woodbine.

Water Willow.LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Freshness					Damask Rose.
Friendship .					Acacia.
Friendship, early .					Blue Periwinkle.
Friendship, true .					Oak-leaved Geranium.
Friendship, unchanging					Arbor Vi tee.
Frivolity					London Pride.
Frugality					Chicory. Endive.
Gaiety ....					Butterfly Orchis.
Gaiety ....					Yellow Lily.
Gallantry ...					Sweet William.
Generosity .					Orange Tree.
Generous and devoted affection					French Honeysuckle.
Genius ....					Plane Tree.
Gentility					Corn Cockle.
Girlhood					White Rosebud.
Gladness . . .					Myrrh.
Glory ....					Bay Tree.
Glory ....					Laurel.
Glorious beauty . .					Glory Flower.
Goodness . . .					Bonus Henricus. '
Goodness					Mercury.
Good education .					Cherry Tree.
Good wishes. . .					Sweet Bazil. _
Goodnature . . .					White Mullein.
Gossip ....			0		Cobcea.
Grace ....			a		Multiflora Rose.
Grace and elegance			a		Yellow Jasmine.
Grandeur					Ash Tree-
Gratitude . . .					Small White Bell flow
Grief ....					Harebell.
Grief . . .					Marigold.
Happy love .					Bridal Rose.
Hatred ....					Basil.
Haughtiness.					Purple Larkspur.
Haughtiness					Tall Sunflower.
Health ....					Iceland Moss.
Hermitage . .					Milkwort.
Hidden worth . .					Coriander.
Honesty .					Honesty.
Hope ....					Flowering A Imond.
Hope . .					Hawthorn.
Hope ....					Snowdrop.
Hope in adversity					Spruce Pine.
Hopeless love					Yellow Tulip.
Hopeless, not heartless					Love Lies Bleeding.
Horror ....					Mandrake.
Horror .					Dragonswort.
Horror . . . .					Snakes/oot.

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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Hospitality

Humility

Humility

Humility

Oak Tree.

Broom.

Small Bindweed. Field Lilac.

I am too happy .

1 am your captive I am worthy of you I change but in death .

1 declare against you .

1 declare against you .

I declare war against you I die if neglected .

I desire a return of affection I feel my obligations I feel your kindness I have lost all I live for thee I love .

I partake of your sentiments I partake your sentiments I shall die to-morrow .

I shall not survive you I surmount difficulties I will think of it .

I will think of it .

I wound to heal .

If you love me, you will find it out Idleness

Ill-natured beauty Imagination .

Immortality .

Impatience .

Impatient of absence Impatient resolves Imperfection Importunity *

Inconstancy.

Incorruptible Independence Independence Indifference .

Indifference .

Indifference .

Indifference .

Indiscretion .

Industry

Industry, Domestic Ingeniousness Ingenuity

Cape Jasmine.

Peach Blossom.

White Rose.

Bay Leaf.

Belvedere.

Liquorice.

Wild Tansy.

Laurestina.

Jonquil.

Lint.

Flax.

Mourning Bride.

Cedar Leaf.

Red Chrysanthemum. Double China Aster. Garden Daisy.

Gum Cistus.

Black Mulberry.

Mistletoe.

Single China Aster.

Wild Daisy.

Eglantine (Swectbrier). Maiden Blush Rose. Mesem brya n them u m. Citron.

Lupine.

A marantli (Globe).

Yellow Balsam. Corchorus.

Red Balsam.

Henbane.

Burdock.

Evening Primrose.

Cedar of Lebanon.

Wild Plum Tree.

White Oak.

Everflowering Candytuft. Mustard Seed.

Pigeon Berry.

Senvy.

Split Reed.

Red Clover.

Flax.

White Pink.

Pencilled Geranium.



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awoW*0*LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Ingenuous simplicity . Ingratitude .

Innocence

Insincerity .	.	.

Insinuation .

Inspiration .

Instability Intellect Intoxication .

Irony ....

Jealousy

Jealousy

Jest ....

Joy .

Joys to come Justice .... Justice shall be done to you J ustice shall be done to you

Knight-errantry .

Lamentation Lasting beauty Lasting pleasures.

Let me go

Levity .... Liberty

Life .... Lightheartedness. Lightness Live for me .

Love .... Love .... Love, forsaken Love, returned Love is dangerous Lustre ....

Luxury.

Magnificent beauty

Majesty

Malevolence

Marriage .	.	.	.

Maternal affection Maternal love Maternal tenderness Matrimony .

May you be happy

Mouse-eared Chickweed. Crowfoot.

Daisy.

Foxglove.

Great Bindweed.

A ngelica.

Dahlia.

Walnut.

Vine.

Sardony.

French Marigold.

Yellow Rose.

Southernwood.

Wood Sorrel.

Lesser Celandine.

Rudbeckia.

Coltsfoot.

Sweet-scented Tussilage.

Helmet Flower (Monkshood).

Aspon Tree.

Stock.

Everlasting Pea.

Butterfly Weed.

Larkspur.

Live Oak.

Lucern.

Shamrock.

Larkspur.

Arbor Vita.

Myrtle.

Rose.

Creeping Willow.

A mbrosia.

Carolina Rose. Aconite-leaved Crowfoot, cr h air Maid of Franee. Chesnut Tree.

Calla AEthiopica.

Crown Imperial.

Lobelia.

Ivy.

Cinquefoil.

Moss.

Wood Sorrel.

American Linden. Volkamenia.

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wmnrf>rinrA»WiW*n»wam* miiWMtLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Meanness......................

Meekness ..... Melancholy ..... Melancholy ..... Mental beauty	....

Mental beauty	....

Message .	.	.	.

Mildness .....

Mirth....................

Misanthropy. .....

Misanthropy...................

Modest beauty	....

Modest genius	....

Modesty ..... Modesty and purity Momentary happiness .

Mourning ..... Music.........................

My best days are past.

My regrets follow you to the grave

Neatness......................

Neglected beauty Never-ceasing remembrance

Old age.......................

Only deserve my love .

Painful recollections Painting ..... Painting the lily .... Passion.	.	.	.	.	.

Paternal error ....

Patience......................

Patriotism .....

Patriotism....................

Peace ........................

Perfected loveliness Perfidy	.	.	.

Pensive beauty .	.

Perplexity	.	.	.	.	.

Persecution ..... Perseverance .... Persuasion ..... Persuasion .....

Pertinacity...................

Pity..........................

Pleasure and pain Pleasure, lasting .	.	.

Cuscuta.

Birch.

Dark Geranium.

Dead Leaves.

Clematis.

Kennedia.

Iris.

Mallow.

Saffron Crocus.

A conite ( Wolfsbane).

Fuller s Teasel.

Trillium Dictum,

Creeping Cereus.

Violet.

White Lily.

Virginian Spiderwort. Weeping Willow.

Bundles of Reed with their panicles.

Colchicum,or Meadow Saffron Asphodel.

Broom.

Throatwort.

Everlasting.

Tree of Life.

Campion Rose.

Flos A donis.

A uricula.

Daph?ie Odora.

White Dittany.

Cardamine.

Dock. Ox Eye.

American Elm.

Nasturti um.

Olive.

Camellia Jap07iica, White. Common Laurel, in flower. Laburnum.

Love in a Mist.

Cheqttered Fritillary. Swamp Magnolia.

A Ithea Frtitex.

Syrian Mallow.

Clotbur.

Pine.

Dog Rose.

Everlasting Pea.LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Pleasures of memory Popular favour Poverty Power .

Power .

Precaution . Prediction Pretension Pride Pride .

Privation Privation Profit .

Prohibition .

Prolific .

Promptness . Prosperity Protection Prudence Pure love

Pure and ardent love Pure and lovely . Purity .

Quarrel.

Quicksightedness.

Reason.

Recantation .

Recall . Reconciliation Reconciliation Refusal.

Regard.

Relief .

Relieve my anxiety Religious superstition Religious superstition Religious enthusiasm Remembrance Remorse Remorse Rendezvous .

Reserve Resistance . Restoration . Retaliation .

Return of happiness

Revenge

Reverie

White Periwinkle.

Cist us, or Rock Rose. Evergreen Clematis. Imperial Montague. Cress.

Golden Rod.

Prophetic Marigold. Spiked Willow Herb.

A maryllis. Hundred-leaved Rose. Indian Plum. Myrobalan.

Cabbage.

Privet.

Fig Tree:

Ten-week Stock.

Beech Tree.

Bearded Crepis. Mountain Ash.

Single Red Pink.

Double Red Pink.

Red Rosebud.

Star of Bethlehem.

Broken Corn-straw.

Hawkweed.

Goat's Rue.

Lotus Leaf.

Silver-leaved Geranium Filbert.

Hazel.

Striped Carnation. Daffodil.

Balm of Gilead. Christmas Rose.

Aloe.

Passion Flower. Schinus.

Rosemary.

Bra?nble.

Raspberry.

Chickweed.

Maple.

Tremella Pies toe. Persicaria.

Scotch Thistle.

Lily of the Valley. Birdsfoot Trefoil. Flovuering Fern.

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EaZCOBMgrautTALANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Reward of merit .

Reward of virtue.

Riches .... Rigour .... Rivalry.

Rudeness Rudeness Rural happiness .

Rustic beauty Rustic oracle

Sadness

Safety .... Satire .... Sculpture Secret Love.

Semblance .

Sensitiveness Sensuality .

Separation .

Severity

Shame ....

Sharpness

Sickness

Silliness

Simplicity

Sincerity

Slighted love

Snare .	.	.

Solitude

Sorrow.... Sourness of Temper . Spell .... Spleen .... Splendid beauty . Splendour' .

Sporting .

Stedfast Piety Stoicism Strength Submission .

Submission .

Success crown your wishes Succour

Sunbeaming eyes Surprise Susceptibility Suspicion Sympathy .

Sympathy .

Bay Wreath.

Garland of Roses.

Corn.

Lantana.

R ocket.

Clotbur.

Xanthium.

Yellow Violet.

French Honeysuckle. Dandelion.

Dead Leaves.

Traveller s Joy.

Prickly Pear.

Hoya.

Yellow Acacia.

Spiked Speedwell.

Mimosa.

Spanish Jasmine.

Carolina Jasmine.

Branch of Thorns.

Peony.

Barberry Tree.

A nemone (Zephyr Flower). Poof s Parsley.

A merican Sweetbrier. Garden Chervil.

Yellow Chrysanthemum. Catchfly. Dragon Plant. Heath.

Yew.

Barberry.

Circcea.

Fumitory.

Amaryllis.

A usturtinm.

Box-tail Grass.

Wild Geranium.

Box Tree.

Cedar. Fennel.

Grass.

Harebell.

Coronella.

Juniper.

Scarlet Lychnis.

Truffle.

Wax Plant.

Champignon.

Balm.

Thrift.LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Talent ......

'Tardiness .....

Taste..................

Tears ......

Temperance	....

Temptation .....

Thankfulness	....

The colour of my fate.

The heart’s mystery .

The perfection of female loveliness The witching soul of music Thoughts .....

Thoughts of absent friends Thy frown will kill me Thy smile I aspire to .

Ties ......

Timidity .....

Timidity .....

Time ......

Tranquillity. ....

Tranquillity.	.	.	.	.

'Tranquillize my anxiety Transient beauty’.

Transient impressions.

Transport of joy.

Treachery .	.	.	.

True love .....

True Friendship ....

Truth ......

Truth................

Unanimity .....

Unbelief .....

Unceasing remembrance Unchanging friendship Unconscious beauty .

Unexpected meeting .

Unfortunate attachment Unfortunate love.

Union ......

Unity ......

Unpatronized merit .	.	.

Uselessness .....

Utility................

Variety	.....

Variety

Vice.................

Victory	.....

Virtue...............

IVhite Pink.

Flax-leaved Goldy-locks. Scarlet Fuchsia.

Helenium.

A zalea.

A pple.

Agrimony.

Coral Honeysuckle.

Crimson Polyanthus.

/usticia.

Oats.

Pansy.

Zinnia.

Currant.

Daily Rose.

Tendrils of Climbing Plants. A maryllis.

Marvel of Peru.

White Poplar.

Mudwort.

Stonecrop.

Christmas Rose. Night-blooming Cereus. Withered White Rose.

Cape Jasmine.

Bilberry.

Forget Me Not.

Oak-leaved Geranium. Bittersweet Nightshade. White Chrysanthemum.

Phlox.

Judas Tree.

A merican Cudweed.

Arbor Vitce.

Burgundy Rose.

Lemo7i Geranium.

Mourning Bride.

Scabious.

Whole Straw.

White and Red Rose together. R ed Primrose.

Meadowsweet.

Grass.

China Aster.

Mundi Rose.

Darnel (Ray Grass),

Palm.

Mint.

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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

Virtue, Domestic.			Sage.
Volubility .			Abecedary.
Voraciousness ....			Lupine.
Vulgar Minds ....			African Marigold.
War				York and Lancaster Rose.
War				Achillea Millejolia.
Warlike trophy • • • •			Indian Cress.
Warmth of feeling			Peppermint.
Watchfulness ....			Dame Violet.
Weakness . . . . .			Moschatel.
Weakness .....			Musk Plant.
Welcome to a stranger			American Starwort.
Widowhood. ....			Sweet Scabious.
Win me and wear me .			Lady's Slipper.
Winning grace ....			Cowslip.
Winter. . . .			Guelder Rose.
Wit . . . . .			Meadow Lychnis.
Wit ill-timed ....			Wild Sorrel.
Witchcraft ....			Enchanter s Nightshcule.
Worth beyond beauty.			Sweet Alyssum.
Worth sustained by judicious and	tender		
affection ....			Pink Convolvulus.
Worthy all praise			Fennel.
You are cold ....			Hortensia.
You are my divinity .			American Cowslip.
You are perfect ....			Pine Apple.
You are radiant with charms			Ranunculus.
You are rich in attractions .			Garden Ranunculus.
You are the queen of coquettes .			Queen s Rocket.
You have no claims			Pasque Flower.
You please all			Branch of Currants.
You will be my death .			Hemlock.
Your charms are engraven on my heart			Spindle Tree.
Your looks freeze me .			Ice Plant.
Your presence softens my pains .			Milkvetch.
Your purity equals your loveliness			Orange Blossoms.
Your qualities, like your charms, are			
unequalled ....			Peach.
Your qualities surpass your charms			Mignionette.
Youthful innocence			White Lilac.
Youthful love ....			Red Catchfly.
Zealousness .....			Elder.
Zest				Lemon.

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DAFFODILS.

[ wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, (Vhen all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden Daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle in the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ;

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company ;

I gazed and gazed, but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought!

For oft when on my couch I lie,

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the Daffodils.

Wordsworth.

THE ROSE.

Go, lovely Rose !

Tell her that wastes her time on me, That now she knows,

When I resemble her to thee,

How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,

And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide,

Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired;

Bid her come forth,

Suffer herself to be desired,

And not blush so to be admired.

Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ;

How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair.

Yet, though thou fade,

From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise : And teach the maid

That goodness Time’s rude hand defies ; That virtue iives when beauty dies.

Waller.

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THE SEJVS/T/VE PLANT.

A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,

And the young winds fed it with silver dew,

And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,

And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.

• * * * * *

But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness,

Like doe in the noontide with love’s sweet want, As the companionless Sensitive Plant.

The snowdrop, and then the violet,

Arose from the ground with warm rain wet,

And their breath was mixed w'th fresh odour, sent, From the turf, like the voice and the instrument.

Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall,

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.

And the naiad-like lily of the vale.

Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green ;

And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate, soft and intense,

It was felt like an odour within the sense !

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast. Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air The soul of her beauty and love lay bare;

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And the wand-like lily, which lifted up,

As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,

Till the fiery star, which is its eye,

Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky ;

And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose,

The sweetest flower for scent that blows ;

And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime.

The Sensitive Plant, which could give small fruit Of the love which it felt from the leaf to the root, Received more than all [flowers], it loved more than ever, Where none wanted but it, could belong to the giver—

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;

Radiance and odour are not its dower ;

It loves, even like Love its deep heart is full,

It desires what it has not, the beautiful!

*	*	*	*	•

Each and all like ministering angels were For the Sensitive Plant sweet joy to bear,

Whilst the lagging hours of the day went by Like windless clouds o’er a tender sky.

And when evening descended from heaven above,

And the earth was all rest, and the air was all love,

And delight, though less bright, was far more deep,

And the day’s veil fell from the world of sleep,

*	*	*	*	*

The Sensitive Plant was the earliest Up-gathered into the bosom of rest;

A sweet child weary of its delight,

The feeblest, and yet the favourite,

Cradled within the embrace of night.LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

O LUVE WILL VENTURE IN,

Tune—“ The Posie."

O luve will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen,

0	luve will venture in, where wisdom ance has been ;

But I will down yon river rove, amang the wood sae green, And a', to pu’ a posie to my ain dear May.

The primrose I will pu’, the firstling o’ the year,

And I will pu’ the pink, the emblem o’ my dear,

For she’s the pink o’ womankind, and blooms without a peer; And a’ to be a posie to my ain dear May.

1	’ll pu’ the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,

For it’s like a baumy kiss o’ her sweet bonnie mou ;

The hyacinth’s for constancy w’ its unchanging blue,

And a’ to be a posie to my ain dear May.

The lily it is pure, and the lily it is fair,

And in her lovely bosom I ’ll place the lily there ;

The daisy’s for simplicity and unaffected air,

And a’ to be a posie to my ain dear May.

The hawthorn I will pu’, wi’ its locks o’ siller grey,

Where, like an aged man, it stands at break o’ day,

But the songster’s nest within the bush I winna tak away; And a! to be a posie to my ain dear May.

The woodbine I will pu’ when the e’ening star is near,

And the diamond-drops o’ dew shall be her e’en sae clear:

The violet’s for modesty which weel she fa’s to wear,

And a’ to be a posie to my ain dear May.

I ’ll tie the posie round w’ the silken band o’ luve,

And I ’ll place it in her breast, and I ’ll swear by a’ above, : That to my latest draught o’ life the band shall ne’er remuve, And this will be a posie to my ain dear May.

Burns.

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MY NANNIE 'S AWA.

Tune—“There'll never be peace" &*c.

Now in her green mantle blithe Nature arrays.

And listens the lambkins that bleat o’er the braes, While birds warble welcome in ilka green shaw;

But to me it’s delightless—my Nannie’s awa.

The snaw-drap and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the weet o’ the morn;

They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, They mind me o’ Nannie—and Nannie’s awa.

Thou lav’rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn, The shepherd to warn o’ the grey-breaking dawn, And thou mellow mavis that hails the night-fa’,

Give over for pity—my Nannie’s awa.

Come, autumn, sae pensive, in yellow and grey,

And sooth me wi' tidings o’ Nature’s decay;

The dark, dreary winter, and wild-driving snaw, Alane can delight me—now Nannie’s awa.

Burns.

THEIR GROVES, &c.

Tune—11 Humours of Glen."

Their groves o’ sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o’ green breckan,

Wi’ the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.

Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,

Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen; For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers,

A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean.

Burns.

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FLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY,,

On turning one down with a plough, in April 1786.

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r,

Thou’s met me in an evil hour;

For I maun crush amang the stoure

Thy slender stem;

To spare thee now is past my pow’r,

Thou bonnie gem.

Alas ! it’s no thy neebor sweet,

The bonnie Lark, companion meet!

Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet!

Wi' spreckled breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.

C mid blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ;

Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth

Amid the storm,

Scarce rear’d above the parent earth Thy tender form.

The flaunting flow’rs our gardens yield,

High shelt’ring woods and wa’s maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield O' clod or stane,

Adorns the histie stibble-field.

Unseen, alane.

There, in thy scanty mantle clad,

Thy snawy bosom sun-ward spread,

Thou lifts thy Unassuming head

In humble guise;

But now the share uptears thy bed,

And low thou lies !

Such is the fate of artless Maid,

Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade !

By love's simplicity betray’d.

And guileless trust,

Till she, like thee, all soil’d, is laid Low i’ the dust.

Such is the fate of simple Bard,

On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d ! Unskilful he to note the card

Of prudent lore,

Till billows rage, and gales blow hard,

And whelm him o’er I

Such fate to suffering worth is giv’n,

Who long with wants and woes has striv’n. By human pride or cunning driv’n,

To mis’ry’s brink,

Till wrench’d of ev’ry stay but Heav n, He, ruin’d, sink !

Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate, That fate is thine—no distant date ;

Stern Ruin’s plough-share drives, elate. Full on thy bloom.

Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight, Shall be thy doom 1 Burns.

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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN

OF SCOTS.

On the Approach of Spring.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,

And spreads her sheets c’ daisies white Out o er the grassy lea;

Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams, And glads the arure skies;

But nought can glad the weary wight That fast in durance lies,

Now lav’rocks wake the merry morn, Aloft on dewy wing :

The merle, in his noontide bow’r, Makes woodland echoes ring;

The mavis mild wi’ many a note, Sings drowsy day to rest:

In love and freedom they rejoice,

Wil care nor thrall opprest.

Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae ;

The hawthorn’s budding in the glen, And milk-white is the slae ;

The meanest hind in fair Scotland May rove their sweets amang; But I, the Queen of a’ Scotland, Maun lie in prison strang.

I	was the Queen o' bonnie France,

Where happy I hae been ;

Fu' lightly rase I in the morn,

As blythe lay down at e en ;

And I'm the sov’reign of Scotland,

And mony a traitor there ;

Yet here I lie in foreign lands,

And never ending care.

But as for thee, thou false woman,

My sister and my fae,

Grim vengeance, yet, shall whet a sword That thro' thy soul shall gae :

The weeping blood in woman's breast Was never known to thee;

Nor th’ balm that draps on wounds of woe Frae woman’s pitying e’e.

My son! my son ! may kinder stars Upon thy fortune shine ;

And may those pleasures gild thy reign, That ne’er wad blink on mine !

God keep thee frae thy mother’s faes,

Or turn their hearts to thee :

And where thou meet’st thy mother's friend, Remember him for me 1

Oh ! soon, to me, may summer-suns Nae mair light up the morn !

Nae mair, to me, the autumn winds Wave o’er the yellow corn!

And in the narrow house o’ death Let winter round me rave;

And the next flow’rs that deck the spring, Bloom on my peaceful grave !

Burns.





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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

RED AND WHITE ROSES.

Read in these Roses the sad story Of my hard fate, and your own glory ;

In the white you may discover The paleness of a fainting lover ;

In the red the flames still feeding On my heart with fresh wounds bleeding. The white will tell you how 1 languish, And the red express my anguish,

The white my innocence displaying,

The red my martyrdom betraying ;

The frowns that on your brow resided, Have those roses thus divided.

Oh ! let your smiles but clear the weather, And then they both shall grow together.

Cakew.

SONNET.

Sweet is the rose, but growes upon a brere ',

Sweet is the Juniper, but sharpe his bough ;

Sweet is the Eglantine, but pricketh nere;

Sweet is the Firbloom, but his branches rough ; Sweet is the Cypress, but his rind is tough,

Sweet is the Nut, but bitter is his pill;

Sweet is the Broome-flowere, but yet sowre enough And sweet is Moly, but his roote is ill.

So	every sweet with sowre is tempred still,

That maketh it be coveted the more :

For easie things that may be got at will,

Most sorts of men doe set but little store.

Why then should I account of little pain,

That endless pleasure shall unto me gaine ?

Sl’ENSEKLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

TO PRIMROSES

FILLED WITH MORNING DEW.

Wiiv do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears Speak grief in you,

Who were but born Just as the modest morn Teemed her refreshing dew ?

Alas ! ye have not known that shower That mars a flower;

Nor felt the unkind Breath of a blasting wind ;

Nor are ye worn with years ;

Or warped as we,

Who think it strange to see Such pretty flowers, like to orphans young. Speaking by tears before ye have a tongue.

Speak, whimpering younglings, and make known The reason why

Ye droop and weep.

Is it for want of sleep,

Or childish lullaby ?

Or that ye have not seen as yet The violet ?

Or brought a kiss

From that sweetheart to this?

No, no ; this sorrow shown By your tears shed,

Would have this lecture read:

That things of greatest, so of meanest worth, Conceived with grief are, and with tears brought forth.

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A RED, RED ROSE. Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory ;

Tune—“ IVishazus favourite."	Odours when sweet violets sicken,

Love within the sense they quicken.

O,	my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June :

O, my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I ;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt w’ the sun;

1 will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ iife shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve ! And fare thee weel a while ;

And I will come again, my luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

Burns.

Virgins promised when I died,

That they would each primrose-tide Duly, morn and evening, come,

And with flowers dress my tomb.

—Having promised, pay your debts, Maids, and here strew violets.

Robert Herrick.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

Are heaped for the beloved’s bed ;

And so thy thoughts when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Shelley.

Radiant sister of the day Awake ! arise ! and come away !

To the wild woods and the plains,

To the pools where winter rains Image all their roof of leaves,

Where the pine its garland weaves Of sapless green, and ivy dun,

Round stems that never kiss the sun, Where the lawns and pastures be And the sandhills of the sea,

Where the melting hoar-frost wets The daisy star that never sets,

And wind-flowers and violets Which yet join not scent to hue Crown the pale year weak and new ; When the night is left behind In^the deep east, dim and blind,

And the blue moon is over us,

And the multitudinous Billows murmur at our feet,

Where the earth and ocean meet And all things seem only one In the universal sun.

P. B. Shelley.

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TO DAFFODILS.

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ;

As yet, the early-rising sun Has not attained its noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hastening day Has run

But to the even song ;

And having prayed together, we Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring ;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you or any thing.

We die,

As your hours do, and dry Away,

Like to the summer’s rain,

Or as the pearls of morning’s dew, Ne’er to be found again.

Robert Herrick.

CONS FANCY.

I.ay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew;

Maidens willow branches bear ;

Say, I died true.

My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth.

Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth !

Samuel Fletcher.

Mourn, ilka grove the cushat kens !

Ye haz’lly shaws and briery dens !

Ye burnies, wimplin down your glens,

W| toddlin din,

Or foaming strang, wi’ hasty stens,

Frae lin to lin.

Mourn little harebells o’er the lee;

Ye stately foxgloves fair to see ;

Ye woodbines hanging bonnilie,

In scented bow’rs;

Ye roses on your thorny tree.

The first o’ flow’rs.

At dawn, when ev’ry grassy blade Droops with a diamond at his head,

At ev’n, when beans their fragrance shed, I’th’rustling gale,

Ye maukins whiddin thro* the glade, Come join my wail.

Mourn, spring, thou darling of the year ; Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear:

Thou, simmer, while each corny spear Shoots up its head,

Thy gay, green, flow’ry tresses shear,

For him that's dead !

Thou, autumn, wi’ thy yellow hair,

In grief thy sallow mantle tear!

Thou, winter, hurling thro’ the air The roaring blast,

Wide o’er the naked world declare

The worth we’ve lost!

Burns.

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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

TO THE SMALL CELANDINE.

Pansies, Lilies, King cups, Daisies,

Let them live upon their praises ;

Long as there's a sun that sets,

Primroses will have their glory ;

Long as there are Violets,

They will have a place in story ; There’s a flower that shall be mine,

Tis the little Celandine.

Prophet of delight and mirth,

111 requited upon earth ;

Herald of a mighty band,

Of a joyous train ensuing,

Serving at my heart’s command,

Tasks that are no tasks renewing ;

1 will sing, as doth behove,

Hymns in praise of what 1 love !

Wordsworth.



Ere a leaf is on the bush,

In the time before the thrush Has a thought about her nest,

Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless prodigal;

Telling tales about the sun,

When we’ve little warmth, or none.

Comfort have thou of thy merit, Kindly unassuming spirit!

Careless of thy neighbourhood, # Thou dost show thy pleasant face On the moor, and in the wood,

In the lane—there’s not a place, Howsoever mean it be,

But ’tis good enough for thee.

Ill befall the yellow flowers,

Children of the flaring hours! Buttercups that will be seen, Whether we will see or no; Others, too, of lofty mien,

They have done as worldlings do, Taken praise that should be thine, Little, humble Celandine \

TO BLOSSOMS.

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,

Why do ye fall so fast ?

Your date is not so past,

But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile,

And go at last.

What, were you born to be,

An hour or halFs delight,

And so to bid good-night ?

Twas pity Nature brought ye forth, Merely to show your worth And lose you quite.

But you are lovely leaves, where we May read, how soon things have Their end, though ne’er so brave :

And after they have shown their pride. Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.

Herrick.

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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

THE LIL Y AND THE ROSE,

The nymph must lose her female friend, If more admired than she—

But where will fierce contention end,

If flowers can disagree.

Within the garden's peaceful scene Appear’d two lovely foes,

Aspiring to the rank of queen,

The Lily and the Rose.

The Rose soon redden’d into rage,

And, swelling with disdain,

Appeal’d to many a poet’s page To prove her right to reign.

The Lily's height bespoke command,

A fair imperial flower;

She seem’d designed for Flora’s hand,

The sceptre of her power.

This civil bick’ring and debate The goddess chanced to hear,

And flew to save, ere yet too late,

The pride of the parterre.

Yours is, she said, the nobler hue,

And yours the statelier mien ;

And, till a third surpasses you,

Let each be deemed a queen.

Thus, soothed and reconciled, each seeks The fairest British fair:

The seat of empire is her cheeks,

They reign united there.

Cowper.

THE WALL-FLOWER.

Why this flower is now called so,

List, sweet maids, and you shall know. Understand this firstling was Once a brisk and bonny lass,

Kept as close as Danae was,

Who a sprightly springald loved ;

And to have it fully proved,

Up she got upon a wall,

’Tempting down to slide withal;

But the silken twist untied,

So she fell, and, bruised, she died. Jove, in pity of the deed,

And her loving, luckless speed.

Turn’d her to this plant we call Now “ the flower of the wall."

Herrick

THE TRIMROSE.

Ask me why I send you here,

This firstling of the infant year ;

Ask me why I send to you

This Primrose all bepearled with dew;

I straight will whisper in your ears.

The sweets of love are washed with tears.

Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ;

Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ;

I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.

Carew.

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1		ADONIS SLEEPING,  In midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth Of fondest beauty. Sidevvay his face reposed On one white arm, and tenderly unclosed,  By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth To slumbery pout; just as the morning south Disparts a dew-lipp’d rose. Above his head, Four lily stalks did their white honours wed To make a coronal; and round him grew All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue, Together intertwined and trammel’d fresh :  The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh, Shading its Ethiop berries ; and woodbine,  Of velvet leaves, and bugle blooms divine.  Hard by,  Stood serene Cupids watching silently.  One, kneeling to a lyre, touch’d the strings, Muffling to death the pathos with his wings ; And, ever and anon, uprose to look At the youth’s slumber ; while another took A willow bough, distilling odorous dew,  And shook it on his hair ; another flew I n through the woven roof, and fluttering-wise, Rain’d violets upon hris sleeping eyes.  Keats.
	Modonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me Sweet Basil and Mignonette,  Embleming love and health, which never yet I n the same wreath might be.  Alas, and they are wet!  Is it with thy kisses or thy tears ?  For never rain or dew  Such fragrance drew  From plant or flower; the very doubt endears My sadness ever new,  The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed, for thee.  P. B. Shelley.

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There grew pied Wind-flowers and Violets,

Daisies, those pearl’d Arcturi of the earth,

The constellated flowers that never set;

Faint Oxlips ; tender Blue-bells, at whose birth The sod scarce heaved ; and that tall flower that wets Its mother’s face with Heaven-collected tears,

When the low wind, its playmate’s voice, it hears.

And in the warm hedge grew lush Eglantine,

Green Cow-bind and the moonlight-colour’d May And cherry blossoms, and white cups, whose wine Was the bright dew yet drained not by the day;

And Wild Roses, and Ivy serpentine

With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray,

And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold,

Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.

And nearer to the river’s trembling edge

There grew broad flag-flowers, purple prankt with white,

And starry river buds among the sedge,

And floating Water-lilies, broad and bright,

Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge With moonlight beams of their own watery light;

And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.

P. B. Shelley.

Fade, Flow’rs! fade, Nature will have it so;

'Tis but what we must in our autumn do !

And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground,

The loss alone by those that lov’d them found ;

So in the grave shall we as quiet lie,

Miss’d by some few that lov'd our company;

But some so like to thorns and nettles live.

That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.

Waller.

mjvrt	wm-uM.'iifi HH anm. jv-w.t a mmLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

ARRANGEMENT OF A

BOUQUE T.

Here damask Roses, white and red,

Out of my lap first take I,

Which still shall run along the thread, My chiefest flower this make I.

Amongst these Roses in a row,

Next place I Pinks in plenty,

These double Pansies then for show ;

And will not this be dainty?

The pretty Pansy then I’ll tie,

Like stones some chain inchasing ; And next to them, their near ally,

The purple Violet placing.

The curious choice clove July flower, Whose kind hight the Carnation,

For sweetnest of most sovereign power, Shall help my wreath to fashion ;

Whose sundry colours of one kind,

First from one root derived,

Them in their several suits I’ll bind :

My garland so contrived.

A course of Cowslips then I’ll stick,

And here and there (though sparely) The pleasant Primrose down I’ll prick. Like pearls that will show rarely ;

Then with these Marigolds I’ll make My garland somewhat swelling,

These Honeysuckles then I’ll take,

. ’ 'Whose sweets shall help their smelling.

The Lily and the Fleur-de-lis,

For colour much contending ;

For that I them do only prize,

They are but poor in scenting.

The Daffodil most dainty is,

To match with these in meetness J

The Columbine compared to this,

All much alike for sweetness.

These in their natures only are Fit to emboss the border,

Therefore I’ll take especial care To place them in their order :

Sweet-williams, Campions, Sops-in-wine, One by another neatly ;

Thus have 1 made this wreath of mine, And finished it featly.

Nicholas Drayton.

THE CHERRY.

There is a garden in her face,

Where roses and white lilies grow ;

A heavenly paradise is that place,

Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow : There cherries grow that none may buy Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row,

Which, when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds fill’d with snow ; Yet them no peer nor prince may buy Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still,

Her brows like bended bows do stand, Threatening with piercing frowns to kill All that approach with eye or hand These sacred cherries to come nigh.

Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

Richard Allison

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'THE GARLAND.

The pride of every grove I chose,

The violet sweet and lily fair,

The dappled pink and blushing rose,

To deck my charming Cloe’s hair.

At morn the nymph vouchaf’d to place Upon her brow the various wreath;

The flowers less blooming than her face, The scent less fragrant than her breath.

The flowers she wore along the day;

And every nymph and shepherd said,

That in her hair they look’d more gay Than glowing in their native bed.

Undrest, at ev’ning, when she found Their odours lost, their colours past;

She chang’d her look, and on the ground Her garland and her eye she cast.

That eye dropt sense distinct and clear,

As any muse’s tongue could speak,

When from its lid a pearly tear

Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek.

Dissembling what I knew too well;

My love ! my life ! said I, explain

This change of humour ; pray thee tell: That falling tear.—What does it mean ?

She sigh’d, she smil’d ; and to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said :

See ! friend, in some few fleeting hours,

See yonder, what a change is made 1

Ah me ! the blooming pride of May,

And that of beauty are but one :

At morn both flourish bright and gay,

Poth fade at ev’ning, pale, and gone!

At dawn poor Stella danc’d and sung;

' The am’rous youth around her bow’d : At night her fatal knell was rung !

I saw and kiss’d her in her shroud :

Such as she is, who dy’d to-day,

Such I, alas ! may be to-morrow :

Go, Damon, bid thy muse display The justice of thy Cloe’s sorrow.

Prior.

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE

MUCH OF TIME.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may :

Old Time is still a-flying ;

And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best, which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse and worst Times will succeed the former.

—Then be not coy, but use your time, * And while ye may, go marry;

For having lost but once your prime,

You may for ever tarry.

P.OBERT Herrick.

77LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

SONG OF MA Y MORNING.

Now the bright morning-star, day’s harbinger,

Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.

Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;

Woods and groves are of thy dressing,

Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.

Thus we salute thee with our early song,

And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

Milton.

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Among the myrtles as I walk’d,

Love and my Sight thus intertalk’d :

Tell me, said I, in deep distress,

Where I may find my Shepherdess ?

—Thou Fool, said Love, know’st thou not this?

In everything that’s sweet she is.

In yon’d Carnation go and seek,

There thou shalt find her lips and cheek ;

In that enamell’d Pansy by,

There thou shalt have her curious eye ;

In bloom of Peach and Rose’s bud There waves the streamer of her blood.

—’Tis true, said I ; and thereupon I went to pluck them one by one,

To make of parts an union ;

But on a sudden all were gone.

At which I stopp’d ; said Love, these be The true resemblance of Thee;

For as these Flowers, thy joys must die ;

And in the turning of an eye ;

And all thy hopes of her must wither,

Like those short sweets here knit together.

Robert Herrick.

73LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

FRAGMENT, IN WITHERSPOON'S

COLLECTION OF SCOTCH SONGS.

Tune—“ Hughie Graham."

“ 0 gin my love were yon red rose,

‘	“ That grows upon the castle wa’ ;

“ And I mysel’ a drap o’ dew,

“ Into her bonnie breast to fa’!

“ Oh, there beyond expression blest,

“ I’d feast on beauty a’ the night;

“ Seal’d on her silk-saft faulds to rest,

*‘ Till fley’d awa by Phoebus’ light.”

•O were my love yon lilac fair,

Wi’ purple blossoms to the spring ;

And I, a bird to shelter there,

When wearied on my little wing :

How I wad mourn, when it was torn By autumn wild, and winter rude!

But I wad sing on wanton wing,

When youthfu’ May its bloom renew’d.*

* These stanzas were added by Burns.

THE DAISY.

Of all the floures in the mede Than love I most these floures white and rede Soch that men callen Daisies in our town,

To hem I have so great affection,

As I sayd erst, when comen is the Maie,

That in my bedde there daweth me no daie, That I n’am up and walking in the mede To see this floure ayenst the Sunne sprede ; Whan it up riseth early by the morrow,

That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow.

Chaucf-r.ILL USTRA TIONS.

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a	Acacia ....		.friendship ....		7
	Bladder Nut Tree		JTnbolitg. Amusement.		9
c	Cowslip, American		Bibine beautg. gou art dibinitg .	mg	11
©	Dead Leaves .		Sadness ....		ps
IE	Enchanter’s Nightshade		EKitcfjcraft. £orcerg .		16
jr	Fig Marigold		Idleness ....		17
©	Grape, Wild .		Cfjarttg ....		19
	Hyacinth . .		Sport, ©amt. $lag .		21
5	Indian Jasmine (Ipomcea)		attachment ....		23
3	Jacob’s Ladder		Come dofon ....		24
m	Kennedia		fEental beautg		25
1L	Larkspur, Purple .		haughtiness ....		26
tffl	Moss ....		JRaternal lobe		28
	Nettle Tree .		Concert. . . . ,		30
©	Osmunda . .		Breams. .		31
$	Periwinkle, Blue .		Carlg friendship .		32
Q	Queen’s Rocket		Ijou are the ©iteen of Coquettes, fashion . . . .		35
»	Rose			Hobe . . . .		36
*	Southernwood		Jest. Bantering . .		38
C	Thrift ....		Sgmpathg .. .		40
3J	Veronica ....		fidelitg			42
5SE Wood Sorrel			Jog. fraternal tenderness .		43
S	Xeranthemum		Cheerfulness under adbersitg		45
H	Yew			SorrobJ			46
Z	■Zephyr Flower		expectation ....		47

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