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fill.
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is
is
at all satisfactory,
as far as
we
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are aware,
The
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known
this
more appropriate
descriptions, than
any of
its
predecessors.
United States
some
but if any
not yet
unauthorized meanings to
certainly deserve
many
as their older
foreign sisters.
Where
authorities
differed
in regard to signification,
The
the
in-
(to
say nothing of
who
is
among
flowers?
But
for rejecting
for
it
was
and this
expect to find.
who
December,
1865.
critics,
Il^TRODTJCTIO]^.
cities,
aroma of old
tlest
its
Love
that
first
flapped
forests,
its
wings,
of sleeping fragrance,
Lan-
in
daughters
left their
INTRODUCTION.
heart
of
woman,
the
all
many
a time
when
slept
that an
and many a
him onward
to
his heart,
commence
and discover
had been
day
in loosened
and
hill
valley, alighting
when
only
for
many
a day;
INTRODUCTION.
mystery.
At
last,
it
still
at heart,
him a
to
he sat down
moth-
his
to
Venus,
petals falling
upon
his lips
fell
felt
and around
and then
it
it
the drooping
his neck, as if to
upon
for the
And
him
first
sur-
from the
first
its
creation of flowers,
own
that,
when her
leaves withered, to
mark
never
full
knew
that she
So Love found
Rose, and she
first
INTItODUCTIOHr.
10
the flowers, giving
a bell
its
bowed or
sister the
;
until not
it
whispered.
age
now no longer
lonely
he
its
green
homestead of leaves.
Long
did
sit
pondering to
Woman
" She
is
" there
is
a language in her
lily,
shall 1
now
to give a tongue
again
fly
language of
afi"eotion
No
I wiU
there, see to
secrets.
the
I will but at
new Alphabet
first
of Love."
Then he thought
and nursed
in purity, fed
upon
INTRODUCTION.
11
than the
stars, as
than
earth
to
if
that
the
if
virtue,
and goodness,
what they were in the infancy of the world, and man would
again be found only " a
little
light,
now
into
and
his wings
his heart
unfettered, and he
flowery errand,
castles,
refined,
to the angels.
and humble
hamlets,
He
visited
and thronged
new language of
If he
love.
saw a
rustic
maiden
it
at her feet,
As
threw
it
at
moment dated
many
He
pointed
vowed
to
INTBODVCTION.
12
So he wandered along
rude huts rose, and scarce a flower broke the dark brown
Love
solitude.
cerity;
threw down
bell
left
its
ment and
woods he
Solitude.
Lilies
it
Return of
eyes
From
reconciling lovers
bringing back
its
as if for very
promised
for a
who
many
ha,d
long been
flower to
through them
estranged, and
had been
lost
which
Time had
all
for undated
the Flowers.
For
Love and
INTBODUCTIOir.
Amid
the broken
of
capital
which we
column
pedestal,
a hundred
some
rude
in
hiero-
flower, which
or to
sculptured
the
left
shattered
or
among
can trace,
13
their love.
was
In
we
the
is
to
to sacrifice
and
we
they garland
moved
the
down over
maidens
has
know no more.
them
left
first
no record of
history
the language in
has died
forgotten
away
and
all
even
we know
women
their
mute
figures
a nation
men
looked
as
that their
is,
beautiful
name
and that
all,
saving
since
INTROD UCTION.
14
We
passed away.
sigh,
and try
in vain
to
decipher
Love turned
not
if
lift
changed
into flowers
as
throned upon
beautiful
Olympus, was
to
be transformed into a
shone upon the world, and the globed dews hung their
rounded
silver
stand throughout
"
all
time
Thomas MUler.
it
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Missing Page
THE
LANGUAGE OF FLOWEES.
SPRING.
MARCH,
GRASSES
(Gramina).
Ihebe
Utility.
is
any
there
plant
the
without
meadow
care
of
all
serviceable
nists
tell
It
grows
culture,
all
sustaining the
animals most
to
man.
Bota-
of grass exist.
ful
the
or
Many
of
C17)
18
WEEPING WILLOW
The common willow
is
silvery, flexile
with Lafontaine,
but
droop with
to
by universal consent
is
Melancholy.
{Salix Bahylonica).
" Absence
is tlic
HORSE-CHESTNUT
murmur
continually,
Luxury.
(^^sculus hippocastanum).
When
it is
its
its
The
LILAC
"
little
Lilac, in
fruit,
foliage,
however,
and
is bitter,
value.
{Syringa vulgaris).
its
Of
all
that morning
dews do feed
Van Spaendonck
lilacs.
my
heart
let his
its
blossoming."
T. W. Parsons.
brush
fall
before a bunch of
perfect.
and
decomposed
is
which,
into
all
mony which
19
the
light plays
make
that
happy har-
to despair.
" The lilac, various in array, now white,
I^ow sanguine, and her beauteouB head
now
set
Cowper.
The
its
lilac
symbolizes the
tender green,
its
first
flexible
shoots, and
and varied
its
abundant
divine
grace.
ALMOND
Emblem
{^Amygdahis communis).
Heedlessness,
first
to
come.
Virgil
makes
it
all
the shrubbery
yet
is
this
origin.
De-
of Thrace,
Demophoon promised
Phyllis
to
20
come back
in
The tender
return.
moment
Phyllis
his
of hia
at
last
but, having
dead of
grief,
months
Three
after,
Demophoon returned
he offered a
to
of
sacrifice
his
She seemed
beloved.
the almond
for
by
last
grass to
it
weave a
lasting happiness
and
Sweet memories.
trailing stems,
ship,
this
effort
the
disconso-
on the sea-shore,
and return,
tree.
its
This plant
color
is
is
dedicated to
that preferred
by
friend-
sweetest remembrances.
TUUIP
The
that
(TuUpa gesnerianu).
Declaration of love.
its
name
arose from
its
resemblance to a turban,
Pew know
that there
TBE LANGUAGE OP
in our
own
know
to
pastoral England.
turbans
for
was, no
Jonson's
'
Anniversary
Pan's
on
fir^
which
'
old
mentioned in Ben
is
it
idolize
signifies,
by
its
general
almost
me
it
flower,
and whifh
poets,
bears."
that he
It gives pleasure to
the
21
are
doubt, more
Elizabethan
still
we
that
FLOTTEItS.
this
burned to a
flower
coal.
color,
black
The Turks
its
is
in
the
celebrat-
enriched
many
Those who,
speculators.
for
want of
One
said to have
lars
This
extraordinary
by a law that no
for
traffic
was
at
last
checked
should be sold
seventy-five
dollars.
BUCKBEAN
(Menyanthea
light
Calmness, repose.
trifoliata).
clusters, as white as
the
reverse
snow
of these lovely
22
flowers,
and a
whiteness
have
once
tuft of
seen
this
plant,
j'ou
called,
expands only
in
balancing gently
The bog-bean,
and grace.
sometimes
escapes
or
its
water-trefoil,
you
If
on the
elegance
as
it
is
it
APRIL.
HAWTHORN
Hope.
(Crataigus).
HE
to find a fitting
May
them
for to
word
that
season of poetry,
recalled the
the
for this
fragrant
it
name
month of
flowers,
and was
is
dytes,
who
those
whom
more.
dawn of a
life in
by
all
The Trogloman-
their simple
for
they regarded
the
Missing Page
Missing Page
26
But
it.
his.
it
little
it
with a broad
The
tile.
but, stopped
tile,
they bent
decoration, which
it
the
BUGLOS^
La Bruyere,
said, " If
art, if
(Anchuaa
officinaUs.')
women were
moment
leady as they
Falsehood.
make them by
become by
the freshness of
all
were as glowing or as
the
appears incontestable
and
from
yet,
among savage
This
north to
or polished na-
perron relates
how
and went
to
pound
with a triumphant
Du-
air,
as
if this
it,
it"
in a
returned
effect
of her
whom
Greek princess
27
Castellan, speaking
of a
" Her black eyes, well shaped, and on a level with her
head, had the brilliancy of diamonds, but her stained eye-
been embellished by a smile, but I never had the happiness of seeing one.
her face."
its
root
oldest
itate
and
is
That of which
of paints.
it is
dangerous of
least
the basis
all.
is
perhaps the
irreparably.
If
we wish
to please long, if
we wish
it
to
our
lips,
REST-HARROW
(Ononis spinosa).
aimable."
Obstacles.
man by
its
it is
its
With
its
pretty
fields,
28
HONEYSUCKLE
(^Lonieera).
Bonds of
love.
it."
Shakspeare,
The
*'
of woodbine.
in
Midsummer
Dream was
Night's
The opposite
have been
name
bank
delicious
attributes of inconstancy
ascribed to the
and
fidelity
on
this
sweet flower
Dan
Chaucer,
assunder brast."
this
efforts
if its
Love sometimes
were vain,
it falls
29
down
gracefully
Thus
Unhappy Desdemona
the
And
the greatest
heart,
La
and draw
it
away from
virtue.
Poor vine
the
trail
on the ground
der
homage
to
Him who
love.
3*
alone
is
thy
its
ten-
worthy of eternal
MAY.
{Convallaria majalis).
Return of
happiness.
And
Which
little
ivory bells of
BocaiiBG
it
dwi'lLs in
lowly
mood"!
Piirsons.
(30)
So
31
Tlian
Seats.
And Thomson,
PRIVET
(^Ligustrum mtlgare).
Prohibition.
your garden
"
When you
for-
is
accompanied on your
is
a caress
replied, "
The pastor
and
if
lips
by a tender smile
console him
hedge ought
and
even to those
offer flowers
your look
HEATH
{Erica).
to
keep
whom
is
in like
man-
it
repulses."
Solitude.
so freely in Great
32
of solitude.
It
many
recalls
as the
emblem
a wild landscape
the
till
was
it
mountain steep
in
might
sit
a sun-
light
it
recalls
without being
if
the
arms
solitary
hunter."
POETS' NARCISSUS
This
is
(Narcissus poetieus).
most beautiful of
the
its
Egotism.
family.
large
flower,
odor.
so
we
And round
To which
"
The
to
And
say,
'
Go,
fool,
and to
tliy
image
it
Spenser, in
stall;.
talk.'
Lord Thurlow.
On
33
meek and
LINDEN,
Come
'
forth,
or
and
LIME
let
Conjugal love.
(TiHa).
see,
light
Thick tapestry."
Mrs. Hemans.
thus
now an emblem
stands
it
and the
bewitching.
The
ing
air.
ers
makes a good
tisane
its
attri-
foliage is very
effects of light
of the
all
and shade on
the surround-
an infusion of
its
flow-
it,
lin-
The
wood
white satin.
Its
Europe with
fuel,
chestnut
shoes, and
furniture.
The horseits
place
in
it.
STRAWBERRY
The
illustrious
{Fragaria vesca).
Bernardin de
Perfect excellence.
St. Pierre
conceived the
34
had chanced
to
grow over
his
so
many wonders
in
He
lifetime.
that he clearly
it,
was enough
inhabitants
its
and discovered
to fiU a
title
of his
It is
from
this
and
it is
there, above
all,
that
taste.
It is a
we
sight,
the
fresh-
smell, the
rich,
The learned
and
pluck them
of strawberries.
pretty
but
who
so
The
flowers
barbarous
as
are
to
THYME
{Thymus).
Activity.
How many
the
this
fragrant
flowery,
is
is
tufts
The
perfume, strength-
a warlike virtue,
and
this is
why
ladies for-
RED VALERIAN
This
is
(^Valeriana rubra).
35
Readiness.
be
and animating
it
is
to the spirits.
strengthening to the
It
is
improved by
is
culture,
is
The
it is
SUMMER.
JUNE
THE MONTH OF ROSES.
UEEN
of
who
flowers,
that
enchanting Rose
pression
can
even do justice
fections.
title
the
maiden,
is
Yet no ex-
exaggerate,
to,
or
thy per-
many
a Catholic
Among
the
37
of
its
it.
and Persia
Syria, Arabia,
There
greatest perfection.
Attar, which
makes
it
the precious
is distilled
live forever.
"Its breath
and when it dies
It doth bequeath a charm to sweeten death."
Is ricb
beyond the
rest;
Barry Cornwall.
The
is
continually
it
Moore
What
alla-
to the nightingale,
is it
says,
is
not
.'
"How
The maid
for
whom
his melody.
is heard on high.
Blooms blushing to her lover's tale:
His queen, the garden's queen, his rose.
Unbent by winds, unchilled by snows,
Far from the winters of the west,
By
And
Her
fairest
as
follows
Saint
M^dard,
38
bishop
This prize
virtue.
is
but
all
who
obtains
The
sister of
St.
virtues, to posterity.
many
the
first rosiere.
its
as the
it
it,
many
kings
and another
to the
brow of innocence.
the
victor's
And
tells
us that,
contest of beauty,
meed."
Spenser
Alma,
Was
In
many
a festive scene,
we
Sidney
beautifully said,
"
poems
Rose."
Middleton says,
is
One
to
"point a
of,
39
I never heard
**
rose."
Herrick sings,
"Gather the rosebuds while ye may;
Old Time is still a flying;
And this some flower, that smiles to-day,
'
To-morrow
And
will be dying."
Thy
root
is
And
ever in
its
grave,
the
of Philip
court
I4 Rose,
Fair,
the delight of
how dangerous
it
is
to listen
to defend
Pope of Rome
formerly sent to
is
in
the twelfth
new sovereigns
fine
Sappho
little
poem on
to
instituted
century.
at their accession,
rose
is
but
attributed to
pomp
by
was
the
/n guuuy
It
its petals
spread;
40
In one he
Thou
to thee I sing,
The
He
ness.
The
translation is
" Thou,
I in
my
by T. Bourne.
friend, Shalt
sweep the
string,
On
When
And
O, thou art
still
Is
the
41
mom
ever seen
of beauty's queen.
Its power to soothe the pangfs of pain
Physicians try, nor try in vain;
And
when
life
And
From whence
It
next be sung
When
The armid
From heaven
Fu da
al
trapassar d'un
And
Ariosto
**
tells us,
il
giomo
lia.
4*
XVL
42
The
told:
I.
Found me
in
my
Bolitude,
ROSEBUD.
"Who
To wear
Yet
many
to
Confession of love,
it.'"
the rose
^y,.^
is
lovelier
before
The rose
is
fairest
when
"
Ah
Doth
That
Thomson
'
fairer
how
sweetly shee
praises
WHITE ROSE
It
QRosa alba).
all
differ
roses
43
Silence.
widely as to
how
red.
it
is,
became
that
it
The ancients
hand a white
other
the
lips,
rose.
and holdrose
was
Hence
ceiling.
secrecy.
Happy
the
age,
when a
is
expression
" sub
rosS,,
"
for
brilliant
red rose.
In
And
at
the
veil,
Of
And
"A
sing^le
rose is shedding
It looks as planted
Weep
bier,
Mra.
Hmnam,
44
MOSS ROSE.
PKETTT
this
The Angel of
superb rose.
fell
under a rose
asleep
tree,
refreshing
waking,
thus
mine,
be thine."
In guerdon of duty
Bestow some new beauty,'
She said; and tben smiled
Her
fair
bosom
across;
one day
which
shade,
in
the
the Flowers
him
from
translation
German
and
rapture
gave
on
he
or
45
EGLANTINE.
Poetry.
This
is,
par
the poets.
Hear
them.
"
Such joy
my
still
my sight.
Spenser
*'
tells
us of an arbor
" Its
Cowper
" Here eglantine embalms the
air."
Scott.
"
brier rose,
whose buds
"The
The crowning
hawthorn fail,
But arches of sweet eglantine are cast
From every hedge,"
Mrs, Semans,
" The
glories of the
The
46
Eglantine est
*'
Clemence Isaure
romance
is
made
which
will
the violet.
instituted
be found
que j'aime."
la fleur
say,
to
name
in
the
pretty
by her
old
fuller
Games
account
of
article
on
JTJLT.
MUGWORT
Good
luck.
Happiness.
HEEE
is
a superstition
among
a
the
from
all
With regard
to
the
name
aux hommes,
elle
est aussi
royne Artemisia,
Carie,
nom
fit
year.
femme du
le
car
48
Toutefois
il
de la deesse Artemis
and
WHITE JASMINE
{Jasminum
shape
amiability.
to
have
Its supple
climates, but
Amiability.
officinale).
warm
wormwood.
It
on us a shower
grows now in
all
Its fragrance,
towards night.
Moore.
The
Earl' of Carlisle
pretty stanzas
is
TO A JASMINE TREE.
" My slight and slender jasmine tree,
That bloomest on my border tower.
Thou art more dearly loved by me
Than all the wreaths of fairy bower
I ask not, while I near thee dwell,
Arabia's spice, or Syria's rose;
49
Ttiat climbest
Thy
My
And the
On border
I
dream
on feudal crime,
on thee;
The
It is related that
a duke of Tuscany,
who was
the. first
On
the
She put
it
was not
rich,
But
young
little
dowry.
girl,
.
The Tuscan
girls still
in
the
it
CARNATION
this
wreath
is
rich
enough
fortune.
{Dianthm caryophyUua).
skilful cultivation is
wear a wreath of
almost
infinite,
this
making
love.
flower
it
by
a great
50
But through
preserves
its
all
changes
it
still
wear one in
aversion to perfumes
Pope
says,
Dismiss
And
in
XTV., whose
well known.
is
my
soul,
VERVAIN
[Verhenahaslata).
Enchantment.
divination,
reconciling
Romans
among
and.
other
properties,
it.
that
When
made
of
the
great-
it
they
Venus
this
brides, as if to put
goddess.
this
shepherds gather
it
only to themselves.
known
The
tare
TARES
(Lolium iemulentum),
Tice.
made
to symbolize vice.
Its stalk
is
wheat
bles that of
grows up in the
it
that
csire,
may
it
in
virtue.
It
in the garden.
the
its
modest
and sirups
Beneficence.
typifies beneficence, is
pastes
diligently to
which springs up
{Atthea officinalis).
the
MARSHMALLOW
head
up
resem-
finest harvests.
good grain.
at the
51
are
The
flowers,
all useful.
prepared from
its
the
Various
juices,
as
A lost traveller
ment
in
discover,
foresight.
plants
its
root.
We
But
as in
this
of
love
and
modest exterior.
52
FLOS ADONIS
Adonis was
left for
fate
(_Adonis autumnalis).
killod
him the
Painful recollections.
by a wild boar.
immediately produced
a slender
|)lant
covered with
LOCUST
{Rohinia pseudo-aeaeid).
Platonic love.
it
his
and
name.
its
botanist Robin,
its
made bows
shade.
of
its
who
and
The
wood, and
AUGUST.
WHITE LILY
" II
(Lilium candidum).
Majesty.
Purity.
BoisjoUn.
EAK
ineffable
grace on
the
elegant
its circle
of
It is
on
of
Charlemagne.
5*
and
it.
The sovereigns
It
bloomed in
it
Philip Augustas
(53)
54
sprinkled his
standard with
St.
lilies.
Louis wore
and
daisies,
these words
amour
" Hors
crucifix with
all
lilies
trouver
combined
for the
his reli-
he held dear
grots,
Purple-spiked lavender."
Tennyson,
'
Mn.
GARDEN GILLYFLOWER
Norton.
{Cheiranthua armuua).
Lasting Beauty.
The
gillyflower,
The
graceful
less
lily,
keeps
its
efi"ect3
it.
than
de la Tour says,
"At an
Mme.
Luxemburg
of
coarse
ware,
filled
and of the
55
gillyflowers.
living flames
said that
'HHZ.fCC (Tritieumvulgare).
"Wealth.
because
An
fire, to
culture exacts
its
assure to
one of the
It is
first
links of
society,
days.
leather bag.
"I
believe this
but, seeing
that I
am
DAHLIA
is
what
it
It is
(DahUa),
little
flour."
He
hastily
flavor,
flowers,
My gratitude
It
was
first
Novelty.
its
roots
introduced
as
from Andrew
it,
Europe
up
opened
into
little
it
Dahl,
a celebrated
It is
Swedish
named
botanist.
gardeners hold
it
in great esteem.
56
GARDEN MARIGOLD
"
(Calendula
Grief.
officinalis).
Chagiin.
And
see, the
'gins to sliut
man, pale
a;nd
languishing, whose
all
till
It
is
It
Bomans
therefore the
nine A. M.
little
blooms
called
it
by
In
night, like
color.
lui seul."
The
it
Chaucer de-
simply gold.
Spenser associates
it
Chatterton mentions
" The mary-budde, that shutteth with the
light,"
57
this flower.
And
" Hark
And
On
And
My
The
practical
Fair
The more
lady sweet,
Arise, arise
Gay
is
tells us,
folds,
Ye ardent marigolds
Dry up the moisture of your golden
I
lids;
We
oft
When
The
grateful
How
58
gone.
When
Which
we bestow,"
MIGNONETTE
Your
(Reseda odorata).
qualities surpass
your
charms.
**
No
Yet
Cowper says
"
What
in the Task,
We
its
set
to Egypt.
is
sweetest and
from spring
till
atmosphere,
it
At
most penetrating.
By
versal favorite.
Linnaeus compared
keeping
Flowering
it
is
in a temperate,
it
a uni-
even
little tree,
DATURA
The
foliage
(Datura ariorea).
of
this
plant
mated, and
its
Deceitful charms.
was suggested by
One
it
of Hoffman's wonderful
Majestic plant
C40^
59
AUTUMN
SEPTEMBER,
FORGET-ME-NOT
{hlyosotls palustris).
Forget
me
not.
HKRE
hue,
And
Forget
Ilalleck,
A
were
story
is
told in
of
the
Danube, when a
(60)
cluster
springs
lover
water,
the
throw them
to
me
by on the
admires and
into
crying,
feet,
girl
the flowers,
her
at
Her
them.
regrets
seizes
floated
stream.
61
before
not,"
CHINA-ASTER
Variety.
(^Aster sinensis).
They
a decoration.
as
ranged according to
and masses, the
by
their
The
and
great perfection,
in
reflection
in
owes
china-aster
are
colors
their
eflFect
of which
in
charming
lines
often heightened
is
a stream or sheet
its
is
it
extensively used
variety to
water.
of
skilful
culture.
TUBEROSE
The
seems
tuberose
European writer
whether
it
Voluptuousness.
{^Polianthes tuherosa).
to
in 1594.
be
first
mentioned
by a
it
most evidence
it
Vara de S. Jose, or
of a
skilful
its
St.
to
Joseph's wand.
France in 1632.
It
florist
of Leyden
named Lecour;
62
thence
spread
it
over
all
the
In Kussia
world.
naturalized.
stem, and
exhale
oppressive
if
Moore
tells
us of
'
MORNING GLORY
(jCtmvolmtlus purpureua).
Coquetry.
to
me;
"
it
it is
Aux
Zephyr
la flatte
de
I'aile
La
emblSme
Le grand
Sans
^clat, le plaisir
mSme
HELIOTROPE
de la Madeline.
(^Heliotropium penivianum).
I adore you.
Intoxication.
" Heliotrope, whose gray and heavy wreath
Mimics the orchard blossom's fruity breath."
Mrs. Norton.
is
One
day, the
63
most
perfume
flower,
liant
bril-
He
ple.
feet high),
were
six
were loaded,
turned to the
all
circumstance, he gave
the
(which
Greek words
it
sun.
name
the
of heliotrope, from
helios,
Elat-
of
it,
and send
ladies of Paris
siasm
called
they placed
it
it
immediately took
able
in
the
its
did
The
Jardin du Roi.
new
plant
most
with
enthu-
precious
the
to
received the
not contain
vases,
indiffer-
It
it.
place
as
a favorite in fashion.'
society.
SUNFLOWER
was
{Helianthus annuus) .
False riches.
MatuHn,
" Sunflowers, planted for their gfilded show,
That scale the window's lattice ere they blow;
Then, sweet to habitants within the sheds,
Peep through the diamond panes their golden heads."
Clare,
64
The
sunflower,
too, is
The Virgins
tivals,
star
of
immense
this
flower,
their hands.
to turn
it
of the
it
it.
yellow being
It is said
that
possessing
his
numerous slaves
in the mines.
which
at
all
with gold.
filled
" I give you," said she, " the only thing we iave
abundance
self
whether gold
made
is
so great a good
"
in
see your-
This lesson
WALL-FLOWER
(Clteiranthm cheiri).
Fidelity in misfortune.
fire
65
Moir.
*'
An emblem
glvea
Barton.
emblem of an
affection
wbich
resists
Abbey
of
rising to heaven,
trophe to
it.
its
The poet
it
brilliant
fine
apos-
OCTOBER.
IVY
(Hedera helix).
Friendship.
KiENDSHip
device
an
fallen
tree,
its
surrounding
ivy
with
the
motto,
altar
In
was
it
The Bac-
with ivy.
fadeless
In Egypt
it
was consecrated
it
to Osiris.
An
The
a suitable crown
Would
Sorace,
(66)
67
Eve
bids
Adam
insensibly
away
From human
Kound which
own?
Where long
fallen
gods
recline.
is thine.
68
Though Bhining
The cold
And
far
above the
festal vine
all
are thine
fields
of air look
down
all
are thine
height.
And
still let
man
'
MEADOW SAFFRON
(Colchicum autumnalis).
My best days
are past.
The
of Colchis,
owed
its
origin to
Medea prepared
This caused
it
all sorts
make
spring.
its
old
^aon
of maladies.
It is still
FOUR O'CLOCK,
or
the following
until
herself a
and consecrates
fled to return
it
climate
the
{Mirahilis
leaf,
an elegant shrub.
is
to
Timidity.
crown
no more.
MARVEL OF PERU
jalapa).
own
young.
tism.
of
to
69
It
opens
its
them again
and
its
timid
at four
in the morning.
We
Solitaire
Si,
fol-
70
Sous
le voile
mystdrienx
De la craintire modeBtie
Tu veux dohapper k nos yenx,
t tu n'en
On
Le doux
Ah
es
on
cherche,
que plus
plaisir
pour encore
Donne ton
que tu recMes;
les embellir,
secret
FRAGRANT COLTSFOOT
Bhall
jolie;
Justice
{Tusailago fragratw).
be done you.
the
But
vulgar.
it,
if
eye of a discriminat-
the
immediately
it
men,
The
comprehend
it.
its
same
fate
it
would
M.
Villau, of Grenoble,
it
its
it
comes
It
at
SCARLET GERANIUM
Mme. de
intellect
(Pelargonium inquinans).
when a man of no
circle.
Silliness.
One
day, how-
young Swiss
oflScer,
Deceived by appearances,
At
71
at first
last, after
mute with
he had listened
only the
But, alas
Mme. de
answers.
silliest
Stael,
he gave
angry at hav-
ing thrown away her trouble and her wit, turned to her
" Truly,
who thought
to please
me
him never
to let
me
sir,
see
this
odor."
me
morning by bringing
"
again."
is finely
it, it
it slightly, it
Why
" Because,
gardener,
it
my
you resemble
is
so
sir,
" asked
since
dressed in red
pleasing
you
;
so
man
CYPRESS
{Cupresaia).
Mourning.
in silence reposes
cjrpress
and yew."
Pierpont.
"
And
Byron,
In cypress chests
my
arras counterpanes."
Shakapeare.
is
imperishable.
tall,
leaves bitter.
us that in the
*'
Its
it
it
wood
is
almost
to funereal uses,
in their cemeteries.
Spenser
garden of Proserpina
iu greatest store."
NOVEMBER.
OAK
Hospitality,
(^Quercua).
Spenser.
HE
ancients believed
that
the
and sustenance
men.
This
to
the
conse-
tree,
crated
to
Jupiter, shaded
cradle
in
Arcadia.
The
his
civic
Romans
the
Epirus, the
of
all
those of
An
account
volume.
In
rewards.
oracles
fill
(?3)
74
Millevoye "
wrote,
La
Bryant eloquently
de chene."
feuille
*'
all
I stand,
and seem
not a prince
the proud old world beyond the deep
AMARANTH
(^A.maranthus).
Immortality.
Me
To whom sweet
The amaranth
The
ancients
adorned with
is
it
it
at
last gifts
the gods.
of
It has, for
poem, pays
"To
With solemn
In the
Book
of Autumn.
the foreheads
one of the
associated
adoration,
it
this
some reason
and Milton,
homage
the ground.
down they
cast
And
again in Lycidas,
all
in
coxcomb
is
Another variety
That which
(a
handsome, and
75
said to
grow
is
is
very
is
I love
*
**
Nor would
And
cherish, for
my
warrior's sake.
PARSLEY
(Apium petroselinum).
Festivity.
In the
Nemean games
a wreath of parsley.
to
it,
At
excite
the victor
was sup-
It
a vase of parsley
but
it
is
at
whose side
The
beautiful
adorns.
76
CORNEUrAN CHERRY
(Carmcs mascula).
Contiiraance.
twenty
ries.
its
feet,
It
but
is
brilliant
red
fruit.
Autumn produces
it
to
Apollo, doubtless because this god presided over intellectual labors, which
This tree
is
the
emblem
laurel
of patience to
pile of flowers
it
spired the
little
We
and
firuit
who
German poet
decomposes the
those
A HEAP OF FLOWERS.
renders
all
reflection.
air,
and
WINTER.
DECEMBER.
SERVICE TREE
{Pyrua domestica).
ACH
of
Pradence.
its
own.
Spring
fruit
for
service
only
7 *
at
tree,
bears
when
it
(77)
has
78
attained
its full
This
tain.
is
Handsome and
all
strength
why
it
keeps
it
for the
little
MISTLETOE
The
cer-
is
durable,
is
its
in the
birds.
{Viscum vertieiUatum).
I surmount everything.
come down
to us
from the
fire,
know
resist.
He
little
even a root of
own.
its
It
Loke
against
arrows
Balder
at
"
"
a goddess
falls lifeless.
is
blind enemy.
slain
Why
"I am
and Balder
the
invulnerable
blind,"
replied Heder,
Balder,
before thee."
mistletoe to
It is thrown,
mistletoe
is
becomes
It
slave,
its
trees
tallest
shrub, growing
evergreen
little
and feeds
it
79
with his
own
substance.
Every one
familiar with
is
nected with
it
as a Christmas decoration.
MOSS
{Cryptogamia).
Maternal love.
them with
their
changed into
own
substance, which
is
by degrees
fertile soil.
shepherd,
the
lover,
little
know no
huts,
where
In Lapland, the
They
milk, eatable
flesh,
and warm
80
LAURESTINE
This
pretty
(^Viburnum tinus).
shrub,
I die
improperly
is
if
called
neglected.
laurustinus,
brilliant with
verdure
it
well repays.
JANUARY.
LAUREL
" Yield
me
{Launa
nqbilis).
Glory.
HE
the
laurel or
every
and among
every age
tory in
The
people.
lovely
river
He
aid,
his
be
esteemed
leaves,
sacred
to
laurel.
Apollo crowned
it
should
in
great
him.
It
grows
its
aromatic
CSi)
82
ascribed to
anciently
The
was
to
height of the
the
resisting lightning
was
it.
Domestica
Flora
in great
there
The property of
says,
" The
bay or laurel
The
statue of
its
leaves.
From
prevailed in some places of crowning the young doctors in physic with this laurel in berry, the
students
laurel.
Byron
said of Pe-
Though
the
" Short
laurel
qjierors," Oglevie
bids us
remember
that
is
of Europe.
HOLLY
{Hex).
Forethought.
The
mas
holly brings to
festivities
mind
and family
Its
curiously
cut,
make
it
the
of
scarlet
berries,
Among
or cottage.
are
83
following
"
it
well perceives
Can reach
to
wound;
And
should
my
youth, as youth
is apt, I
know,
AH
vain asperities
day by day
84
The holly
serious should
That in
Ab
ALOE
The
it
bitter.
holds to the
aloe
loves
grow
to
Thus
grief
soil
desert;
the
in
Bitterness.
Grief.
{^Ahe).
These plants
and
affect
fills
AGNUS CASTUS.
very
is
world,
almost entirely on
live
and wonderful
grotesque
taste
from the
us
withdraws
its
their
Mexico
forms.
native
air,
climes.
Coldness.
of Ceres formed
their
virginal
couch of
they regarded
Nuns used
it
to
and several
the
as
drink
banish terrestrial
itself
of white
a water
distilled
thoughts from
orders
of
their
monks wore a
from
it,
to
solitary cells
knife
;'
whose
made of
the
wood
means of rendering
of the
their
85
agnus castus,
hearts insensible.
And
their
it
for a sceptre.
FEBRUARY.
SNOWDROP
{Galanthua nivalis).
A &iend
ConBoIation.
in adversity.
" Lone
flower,
hemmed
Wordeworth.
snowy
veil
wondering eyes
its
pure cups,
Hope had
to our
marked them
Expand-
all
87
The
now
first
Thou,
To
JUNIPER
(Junipenis communis).
Asyliun.
Aid.
smoke of
its
oflF
now
The
witchcraft.
to flavor gin.
the forest;
Free,
it
loves to
asylum under
its
crouches there, as
berries
and fattens on
its
88
this tree is
YEW
The Greeks,
Sadness.
(Taxus baccata).
this
tree,
Its black,
gloomy
foliage,
its
yew
see
it
in their cemeteries.
lances,
and cross-bows.
Its
it.
It is
asses,
and
head grows
tree, the
Our
and
and ugly
ancestors liked to
for bows,
may
still
masterpieces of
Le Notre and La
FIELD DAISY
"
(^Bellis
own
formed into a
daisy
with Mr.
life
I will think of
perennia).
fair
daisy.
What
Few
will disagree
Thomas
It.
Quintinie.
He
all
but worshipped
known
it.
As
have so great
88
affection,
when comen
is tlie Male,
bedde there daweth me no daie
1 am up and walking in the mede,
To see this flower against the sunne sprede;
When it up rlseth early by the morrow,"
That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow,
So glad am I that when I have presence
I sayd erst,
That
That
in
my
Of
to
done
it
it alle
reverence,
As
And
shall
till
that
mine herte
die."
suit,
the sentiment,
"I
will think
it."
To which
And
Drydenfrom Chaucer,
" The
daisie scattered
The daisy
(or
day's
eye)
quoted, that
we
are
is
the
The
so well
gowan of Burns
known and
so often
few stanzas
8*
90
'
Whole summer
airs.
by right;
And Autumn,
Doth
in
When
melancholy wight
thy crimson head delight
rains are
on
thee.
Thou
The
poet's darling,
V
When,
And when
at dusk,
by dews oppressed,
this flower
affection
on his arms,
it
him
to engrave
his
was returned.
is
apt
to degenerate.
91
up in the
.*
The
is
by Montgomery
THE DAISY.
" There is a flower, a little flower.
With silver crest and golden eye.
That welcomes every changing hour,
And
The prouder
ruji.
92
To
sultry
And
The
But
lily
sheds perfume;
And blooms on
consecrated ground
On
VIOLET
Ovid
the
tells
Roman
(Viola).
Modesty.
" The
violet in her
greenwood bower.
Where
May
93
twilight wet.
violet."
LaTidoTU
can be given
some
If
invisible
What more
praise
them
Ah, no
field,
copse, replace
or
There
peculiar
among
felt it
is
no fragrance
freshness
all
and
like that
purity
of the violet.
make
it
stand
alone
Shakspeare
when he wrote of
But sweeter than the
lids
"violets dim.
of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath,"
The Duke
in Twelfth Night
"That
O,
it
strain again;
came
o'er
my
commands,
it
And
violets.
The sun
Near go
94
Winged from
We
words of Langhorne
" That lavish hand
Which
ASDON,
you
we weary
fair reader, if
but
it
seems
fitting
here to
of the cel-
Games
of Toulouse.
ebrated Floral
poetry
for
all
while
our modern
the
language
formed, the
The
love
for
polite
during
literature
the
The
scurity
origin
;
but
of the
calls
all cities."
we know
made
reign of the
that through
Puys
d' Amour,
the
middle ages
were of frequent
(95)
96
The word
occurrence.
Celtic root,
and
comes from
'puy
signifies tribunal.
It
They
the
court
called
it
by
the
invited
fine
in a garden,
compete
to
for
supposed
gold."
and under
to
the
quiet pursuits
of
litera-
custom
fell
into disuse.
fair
southern
fields,
scene,
and
more the
cultivation
of eloquence
belles-lettres.
Toulpusan family.
sessed
all
She
is
graces, both of
have encouraged
in every
way the
revival
to
of letters.
97
own
Clemence,
left
in
of the
nearly
on a competitor
eglantine
never married.
beginning
own
all
spite
of
She
died,
most
the
aged
century,
sixteenth
brilliant
about
ofiFers,
at
the
and by her
will
fifty,
city,
be
to
ment.
the
violet, the
old
romance
eglantine, and
prettily says,
" Eglantine
La
est la fleur
violette est
As
marigold.
the
ma
the
que j'alme,
couleur;
still,
hundred years
is
it
after its
survives
called,
foundation
though
modern French,
the
high
in
pomp
altar
of
It is celebrated
to
the
after
church of
Our Lady de
interred.
la
Meantime the
and on
the return
9
of
the
commissioners the
98
Formerly
the victors
to
cover with
it
go in procession
shower
of
roses
The
which adorned
statue
this
for
and
the church,
to
of
will.
its
to
coro-
pagan
objecting to that
rites.
to
the
first
three,
The
eign flower.
follows
A
A
A
prizes
at
the
poem, or
epistle
in verse.
silver
idyl,
elegy,
or
ballad.
A
A
silver
a sonnet or
hymn
in
honor of the
Virgin Mary.
silver
pink
is
Madame
of Julia.
de Genlis
de .ambouillet.
it
to
became
the aus-
Due de Montausier,
for
He
stop
flowers cultivated
artists,
the
most beautiful
The volume,
(99)
100
ment of
tlie
bride's dress-
and
is
in
1795 was
unknown.
at
Hamburg.
Its
present possessor
DIRECTIONS
IN
EEE
follows a brief
summary of
language.
Any noun
verb
or
The present
ground
are
by presenting
three persons
first,
it
it
when
necessary.
tense is expressed
There
For the
by
holding
heart; the past,
can be changed to a
adjective
(101)
first,
For
102
it
with the
left
to the
Two
hand.
For
leil.
flowers indicate
There are some amusing examples of the application of this language in winter,
when
as for
note
"
instance
in
this
You know
plant upside
down
Liverwort,
we
are cistus.
Musk
Banish
all
Jacobus.
Translated
reads,
it
Banish aU
No
griefs,
love.
weakness
You know
I have
Confidence,
we
are
our meeting.
I love you,
and
shall love
you forever.
Jacobus.
The colored
of a
floral sentence.
It is a translation of
some verses
Shakspeare,
When
erst
elves,
ofi'ens^e,
Flore sert
flls
!i
was new."
conrronx;
le
de Cythr^e,
(104)
DICTIONARY
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Alimptueaa, Borage,
Absence, Wormwood*
Acconunodating disposition,
Valerian.
(105)
DICTIONARY OF TBE
106
Activity, Thyme.
A.
See p.
34.
See p.
86.
The large-flowered
become
who
It
scarce.
aster begins to
as
is,
it
Agitation, Rlwdodend/ron.
most
the
American shrubs.
brilliant of all
AlvFays clieerful.
Undoubtedly
The
less
this
showy
this family.
Coreopsis.
Always remembered,
EverJasUng,
Ajn1>ition, SollyTtock.
Anger,
The
Corse, or Furze.
very prickly.
in
it
It
grows
England than
when he saw
tured
them
and, carrying
in
London,
some plants
hot-house.
Virgil
fell
to
Sweden, tried to
mentions
the furze.
speaks of
" downs, where sweet air stirs
Blue harebells lightly, and where prickly flirze
Buds
is
in greater profusion in
lavish gold."
raise
Keats
LANQUAGE OF FLOWERS.
107
Dodsleg.
Artifice, Clematis.
To
excite
produce on
This infamous
Arts, Acanthus.
See p.
Asylum, Aid,
Juniper,
artifice
sometimes
25.
See p.
87.
Audacity, Larch.
Austerity,
Thistle.
Beauty ever
Be
my
Beloved dangbter,
CinqutfoH.
Beneficence, Marshmdllow.
Ejeep. $1,
DICTIONAEr OP THE
108
Benevolence,
The reader
potato.
Potato.
is
referred to
Humboldt
I., it
was consid-
the
for
queen's
household.
Bradley, an
extensive
teenth century,
says
of potatoes,
It
was unknown
Saxony as
in
but
them by
of Louis XVI.
It
in Italy
long before.
Benevolence,
The poets
Syacinth.
lily,
hyacinth.
Miss Landon,
'
Of costliest emblem."
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
The
109
Adam.
scribing
Round from
manly hung
Clustering."
The
wear
poetical Hyacinth
,
**
funeral characters."
Scmdys's Ovid.
Beivare, Oleander.
Birth, Dittany of
When
Crete.
name
a wreath of dittany.
by the
isle
ancients,
make
it
still
valued.
it
Its
good
to be esteemed
It is a native of the
of Crete.
10
the
DICTIONARY OF THE
110
wooDy
as to be quite white
Boman
it,
and
Both
which a
beautiful illustration."
Bltternesg, Aloe.
See p.
afifords
Blemish,
Boldness,
The
Henbaiie,
La/rch.
larch
is
tains.
Bonds
Calumny, Madder.
Candor, WMtc
Violet.
21,
on moun-
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Caprlclong Beanty, Musk
Ill
Rose.
first
at
One year
it.
it will
will
it
be
refuse to blossom
all.
Change,
56.
Pimpernel.
rain, it denotes
a change of weather.
Compassion,
The elder
their
81.
Elder.
is
many of
is
said
ence, that he
berries
would take
make a very
off his
hat
when passing
Elder
it.
excellent wine.
Conceit, Pomegranate.
pomegranate in Spanish
of Granada
is
is
its
name from
the pome-
which
is
quite
arms.
See p. 42.
Confidence, Liverwort.
Conjugal love.
Linden, or Lime,
See p. 33.
its
DICTIONARY OF TBE
112
Consolation, Snowdrop.
Cowley
Corn Poppy-
says,
*'
ludulg^ent Ceres
And
knew my worth,
Constancy, Canterbury
Coolness,
Lettuce.
Coqnetry, Morning
Courage, Black
The
Glory.
See p. 62.
Poplar.
Cruelty,
The
Bell.
Nettle.
sting of the
mechanism of the
by looking
nettle
sting
at a leaf
is
Declaration of love.
Tulip,
58.
See p. 20
bum.
The
may be
seen
113
Dejection, Lupine.
" Tristes lupini."
Virgil.
is
is
Delicacy,
very great.
Bluebottle.
is
light,
of Ceylon.
*'
And
To bind them
all
all
things.
Flora, jealous,
Zephyr abandoned
of Boreas,
this
who shakes
soon destroys
unhappy beauty
it.
Desire, Jonquil.
Thomson speaks
of
And
Bidlake,
" The jonquil loads with potent breath the
And rich in golden glory nods."
Prior, too,
10 *
air.
it,
and
DICTIONAET OF THE
114
Of
the
same famUy
Disdain, Sue,
" There's rue for you
of grace o' Sundays
you may
o'
Sundays.
The
Floujer.
It
says of
is
was introduced
it,
"A
into
it
knew
Docility, Rush.
Do me
Justice, Chestnut.
Saffron Crocus,
Cherry,
Great
flower of most
Seep.
78.
in curious
in the rich-
LANGUAGE OW FLOWEBS,
Ulegance, Hose
Xile-ratlon,
See p.
lis
32,
Acacia.
Mr.
Thy
sister plants
wMte,
more gaady robes unfold
Amid
To brave
Osiris' fiery
Thou,
beam
bums
in gold.
is thine,
With morn
slcies."
T. Mavrice.
it
lotus to
The
'water,
DICTIONARY OF TBE
116
Perhaps
it
be an emblem of
may
lily's
The
and
breast,"
true lotus
floats
its
leaves.
is
Sir
own white
The
on
lilies
in
of Bengal
size.
We
Geibel,
"Die
Wasser
stille
rose."
The
Fours
all
He
The
He
lily
Thus
gazing on.
snow-white flower.
Dost thou its meaning know
flower,
XlncliantiueiiLt, Vervain,
See p. 60,
117
common
in the autumn,
brought
it
is
till
after alluding
verifieth
Gerarde says,
'
Far
fetcht
Sndurance,
The pine
Pine.
dew of
the clouds,
Stripped of
its
and
it
loves
branches,
it floats
there.
known
"
Of broad
on.
Its bitter
He
the root
Dodsley.
Eavy,
Briers.
Error, Bee
Orchis.
Esteem,
Sage.
The sage
brilliant
The
is
The
virtues.
and
its
some of the
beautiful.
DICTIONABT OF THE
118
appreciation of
lowing :
Among them
tMs heib.
find the
-vre
fol-
tibi
pocula tuta."
The
South America.
who
first
discovered
Saviour's passion.
it,
as they
The ten
around the
thi-ead
pillar
hands
saw
in it
style, the
missionaries
crown of
thoi-ns
the purple
The time of
three
hnmmer
days between
the
its
one
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
parallel, in the eyes
completed the
119
fathers.
Falsehood, Buglou.
See p.
26.
one to taste
fidious juice,
caustic as to
ellers
is
but
its
which
bum
soft,
is
spongy
its
becomes so
Trav-
on whose shores
this
tree
always
grows.
False Blches,
Fecundity,
Sunflamer.
See p.
63.
Hollyliock.
flowers.
crusades.
See p.
Festl-rlty, Parileil.
75.
One
all
And Dupont,
it is
little
in his
charming piece.
dewdrop tinged by
transformed to a flower.
La
reflected light,
He
goes on to say,
"O
De
celle
DICTIONARY OF TBE
120
Be
t dans
la porcelaine fine
61,
which forms an
inflammahle atmosphere
fraxinella,
around
it,
easily
Flame, German
lAlac,
See p.
18.
Iris.
wave
The sun,
shepherd picked
his mistress,
it
Glass.
toy,
and changed
campanula, which
Folly,
it,
still
its
retains its
silly
forgot
for the
who looked
broke the
mirrors.
on the
this flower
in
error,
name.
Colunibine.
Its flowers,
LANGUAGE OF FLOWBBS.
Foreslgbt, BoUy. See p.
121
82.
pris-
them
It
for
their tardiness
it
in delivering
him from
captivity.
find in Drajrton,
And
in
Lalla Kookh,
Namouna
puts
lies,
in
the
chaplet
of
Nourmahal
" the white moon-flower, as it shows,
Serendib's higfh crags, to those
near the isle at evening sail."
On
Who
Forget
.
me
not, Forget-me-not,
See p.
The
cassia
60.
Tree.
cassia of
houses.
Frankness,
Osier,
Fraternal love,
Syringa,
fijr
DICTIONARY OF THE
122
Ms
brother),
was given to
Friendship,
See p. 66,
Ivy.
is
Tree,
or Chiccory.
mentioned by Horace
" me pascunt
Me
Tree.
See p.
See p, 81.
Good education,
olivae,
properties.
Glory, Laurel.
It is useful in medicine,
Giddiness, Almond
Chffrry Tree,
19.
LANGUAGE OF FL0WEB8.
Good
Goodness,
123
47.
Grace, Birch,
Coleridge calls the birch the "lady of the v
and
forest
And
semitones of green.
A wine
made from
esteemed.
is
Grandenr,
oil
of the birch.
Aeh.
The miraculous
tree
its
its
top
The camellia
japonica, as its
the
is
to
us
in that
Agrimony has a
dielike
it,
but
bitter
it is
taste.
Cattle
qualities.
See p.
56.
DICTIONABT OF TBE
124
Happiness,
Sweet Sultan,
native of Turkey.
Hatred, BasU.
royal; but
signifies
its identity
is
sometimes figured as a
woman
is
therefore
Gilead, produced
by the Amyris
its
place
is
usually supplied
and
Heart
Gile;
its
'species
of
fir,
and
essential qualities.
The pretty
autumn with
their varied
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
125
ment than
themum,
it
China
this.
as of
many
was introduced
is
into
Europe
It is a favorite with
in 1789.
it
BCidden merit,
Coriander.
insufferable, as the
Hope, Hawthdm,
Horror, Serpent
name
koris expresses.
See p. 23,
Cuctus.
Hogpitality, Oak.
See p. 73.
HanUllty, Bindweed.
I adore yon,
I
much used by
confec-
am yonr
Beliotrope.
See p. 62.
11*
is
DICTIONART OF THE
126
I cling to tbee,
X die
X feel
neglected, Laurestme.
it
your
Linen,
See p. 80.
lace,
make
Pea.
benefits, Flax.
useful plant.
also
CMck
Vetch, or
a useful drink
this
while the
oil
is invaluable to painters.
is
And Mentha
And
surprise,
In a flower bid her fallen hero rise?'
Or
Still
we
see,
Immortality, Amaranth.
Impatience,
See p.
74.
Salsamine.
The impatient
seed-vessels
of the
LANGUAGE OF FLOWEHS.
127
Importunity, Burdock.
it.
to clothing
is
appears,
it
all.
on
its
recommended
Kudependeiice,
WUd
as
good
stalks
Snails feed
;
and
to fatten poultry.
Plum,
Amadan
to the academicians of
Ii^nstlce, Hop,
Innocence,
When
first
the earth
is
green;
leaves
it
hath,
It dots
blue,
DICTIONART OF TBE
128
"We
pall
And
well
With
Mn.
Seba Smith,
Inspiration, Angelica.
who
be-
and
The
leaf
and
seeds,
when
recent,
and carminative,
By
northern climes.
much
is
cinal purposes.
pectoral affections
an
article of food;
it
many
for
catarrhal and
and we are
told,
by
Sir
George Mackenzie,
that the Icelanders eat the stems and roots raw with butter.
Intemperance,
all
the
ills
By Gerarde
of
angelica
life."
Grape,
The vine
at
Hampton
a ton of grapes.
Intrinsic wortH, Gentian,
The name
of lUyria.
cine,
the
is
said to
Some
used in medi-
Brj'ant has
sung
we quote
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
129
SONNET
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN.
" Oft had I beard thy beauty praised, dear flower.
And often Bought for thee through field and wood;
Yet could I never find the secret bower
Where thou dost lead, in maiden solitude,
cloistered
life, until,
this
autumn day.
1865.
Irony, Sardonia.
This plant, of the ranunculus family, has some resemblance
to pai'sley.
It contains a poison,
The reader
in
La
1 share
yonr
snrmonnt
I vrlU
is
Fontaine.
everytliiug,
think of
it,
Mistletoe.
See p.
See p.
90.
78.
See p. 88.
DICTIONARY OF TBE
130
Jojr,
Wood
Sorrel, or OxalU.
third year.
is
70.
Tree.
Seep.
removed,
it
LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS.
liife,
p. S4.
Iilgbtnegg, Larkspur.
Lucem,
Liove, Myrtle.
Kfi^estjr,
63.
18.
DICTIONAUT or THE
132
Maternal
love, MoSB,
See p.
79.
meanness. Dodder.
the dodder germinates in the ground
The seed of
soon as
itself to
its
it;
the juices of
and
Dead
TTegMnff Willow.
**
vile
but as
fastens
it
parasite, it
its
Melaucholjr,
Like a
it
Leaves.
absorbs
all
it.
See p.
18.
And
Bryant.
modern French
Iris.
varieties of the
Florentine
The Persian
iris.
Misau^Jbiropy.
to be
it
Orris root
iris is
iris.
Its varied
named from
is
the
very fragrant.
Teasel.
Mistrust, iMvender,
It
under
lavender,
with mistrust.
for headaches
and
therefore
Lavender
is
this
and nervousness.
LANGUAGE OF PLOWEBS.
modest Worth,
Modesty, Blue
mourning.
Primrose. See p.
Tiolet.
See p.
133
24.
92.
71>
SCnslc, Seeds.
Pan formed
tlie
Saffron.
Seep.
68.
Seep.
65.
Native grace.
Cowslip.
"The
cowslips
tall
And hung
12
DICTIONARY OF THE
134
nVeatnegg, Broom,
The broom
ia
Burns says
And
Shakspeare mentions
Whose shadow
"broom grores.
the dismissed bachelor lores.
Being lass-lorn."
IVoTelty,
DaWa.
See p.
Obstacle, Sest-harrow.
Occnpatlon,
Bhind
it
See p.
27.
Foxglove.
says, "
to the notice
in the
S5.
The beauty of
of the
florist,
garden parterre.
It
this plant
and
it is
also
has recommended
conspicuous
object in
in Scotland
and Wales.
Among
scenes
it
has
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
In the south of Scotland
'
bloody fingers
In Wales
called
it is
'
135
in
'
the north,
dead man's
bells.'
common name
origin of the
The foxglove
'folk's glove,'
still
it is
fairies' gloves.'
'
and
be administered
It requires to
The
it
Italians
hurts).
all
poet writes,
Kinging oft
And
its sister,
purely white.
places bright.
Oracle, Dandelion.
The dandelion
to prepare
made
a.
is
bitter,
and
feathery seed-globes
are
kind of
cofiee.
Its
hence
its
meaning, oracle.
Ornament, Hornbeam.
Under the najne of
principsd
can
it
still
see at Versailles
in his compositions.
how
the famous
and one
Le N6tre employed
it
in
verse.
Ostentation, Peony.
it
in medicine,
its
is
said to
means, of a
136
DICTIONARY OF THE
wound
inflicted
peony.
by Hercules.
Painful recollections,
Patience,
J^atience.
A kind
of dock.
Flos Adonis,
See p.
52*
Patriotism, Nasturtium.
Peace,
Olive.
horse,
An
man
it
Minerva the
olive tree,
compared
to
city
a willow;
it
differs,
victorious.
tree,
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
in its color,
137
painters.
The upper
known by
the
The under
Vfith olive
its
of this
butter,
and
dairy, as
tree
for
the
feel at least as
an
article
is
olive.
The
silver
name of
same purposes
much
of food, as
as
dislike to the
we may
inhabitants
oil
we employ
produce of the
feel to the
use of
oil."
Buffini has set this last fact charmingly before his readers in
Cowslip,
Perpetual pleasure,
33.
Everlasting Pea,
Perseverance, Magnolia.
New
is
World.
found in China.
The
Its region
We
is
from South
it
if
once inhaled.
Petulance, Barberry.
The
12*
around the
pistil.
DICTIONARY OF THE
138
Platonic love,
Lo(MSt.
See p. 62i
An
infusion of
Poetry, Eglantme.
it
tends to exhilarate.
See p. IS,
If
it
its
hour,
it is
Presumption, Snapdragon,
Pretension, Willow Berb,
This pretty plant seems to take delight In viewing
in the water
like
a pretentious
woman enamoured
itself
of her
own charms.
Pride, Amaryllis.
Gardeners
plants
is
it
often
The name of
these
The
fruit
contains only an
insipid,
sickening juice.
See p. SI.
Even
the birds
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Promptness,
139
Stoch Gillyfiower.
Prosperity, Beech,
Gilbert
trees,
White
calls the
whether we consider
its
and
trees,
glistering
Old Evelyn
says,
their
beautiful of all
blaze."
is
is,
Miller
writes,
And
leaves.''
glossy
foliage,
all forest
its
leaves.
The
oil
is
said to
Prudence,
Service Tree.
The lemon
was
laid
Lemon. See
p. 77.
In 18 1^, a wager
love, Carnation.
Seep.
19.
White Viola,
White LUy.
See p.
53.
It
DICTIONARY OF THE
140
Barlty, Man^ahe.
Nor
<
all
The
by a gross
left
what
artifice,
Charlatans,
tell
They
who
uproots them
this
root, they
pulled
is
say
when
up by means of a
after.
To procure
Beason,
Ooat's Jtue.
This plant
lects.
is
intel-
LANQUA6B OF FLOWERS.
141
Beconclliatlon, Bazel.
" Te swains,
Tlumison.
changed
was
it
hence the
The
cultivated.
Italy
from
pontica, which
was
from a Neapolitan
city
where
filbert is
Gower
tells us,
Was
That
And
" PhilUs
shape into a nutte-tree.
all
men
it
might
see;
filbert is
of the hazel
Of
it
poles,
are
is
very
made hoops
flexible, it is
as
it
wood
the
and walking-sticks.
turbid wine.
As
draws
freely,
Hazel charcoal
easily.
is
prized by
The caduceus
him by
Apollo.
DICTIONARY OF THE
142
Acheron the
that beyond
spirits
walked
a vast
in
field
of
Remembrance,
Rosemary.
On
Shaktpewre.
Kosemary
It
is
Be
it
for
my
it
bridal, or
stir
matters not at
my
it
all
burial."
remedy
most ancient
times, as a
disorders.
Eau
It
in headaches
and nervous
in the celebrated
to
bloom
shalt
form
my
nosegay now,
a melancholy song;
sweet the strain shall be and long,
The melody of death.
I'll
And
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
143
Come, funeral
With the
And
Come, press
And we will
And not a
me
Bemorge,
Raspberry.
BendezTous,
Pimpernel.
Its punctuality in
for
it
fit
emblem
an appointment.
Bepose, Suckbean,
See p, 21,
Beserve, Maple.
reserve, because
in falling.
Nothing positive
is
known about
which
Betlrement,
stars,
and used
it
it
an
Harebell.
little
-May
well
my
It drinks heaven's
dew
as blithe as rose
And when
Allan, a bard
He
ne'er
place
is
it
in
my
hair,
bound to swear
saw coronet so
fair,"
DICTIONARY OF TBM
144
The
I'll tell;
At eventime
And
Betnm
See p.
Valley.
30,
Reverie, Osmwnda.
No
osmunda
who
by
alders, it
five feet,
bearing at the
caused
it
to be
commonly known
by ancient
against
squattes
is
as flowering fern.
authors.
hoate in the
first
Bongbnegs,
Its virtues
Scratchweed,
it
be."
is
falles,
good
and
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Anptnre, Greek
The name
Valerian, or
145
PoUmcmy.
is
having discovered
it.
p. 88.
Sensibility, Verbena.
The
and beautiful
ill
spare
tints,
common
scarlet,
cultivated
carried
from
and so easy of
cultivation, that
we could
The resemblance
to
dew-drops of the
Slgblng, Aspen.
13
little
transparent
DICTJONART OF TBE
146
Silence, White Base,
See p. 43.
See p. 70,
Sincerity, Fern,
Thomas
up the
Miller
forest,
"
says,
where
still
it
felled
it
it
spreads, true
still
and carry
there
fern calls
soil,
It is associated with
seed,
lives on,
had but
to find the
true fern
its
hideous form,
skill.
anJt
fini
&om
"
You
like
poppies spread ;
bloom is shed,"
Bv/rm,
Solitude, Heath.
See p. 31.
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
147
Sourness, Barberry,
Stoicigm, Box,
Btren^b, Fmnel,
The
mixed
gladiators
strength;
and
after the
it
with
their
food to give
them
victor
was
See p. 44.
Cistus.
Aristotle
hold
Hose.
in their
it
hands from
spirits
who
and phantoms.
Suspicion, Mushroom,
Some
them
very poisonous.
closely, are
The
lavatera
mallow.
It
is
is
called
after
the
celebrated
Lavater.
Sweet memories.
Sympatliy,
-Thrift.
Periwinkle.
See p.
20.
physiognomist
DICTIONARY OF TBE
148
Taste, Faehlwi.
This graceful plant
is
botanist.
Temptation,
The quince
it
Quince.
is
was brought
Italy
Pliny says
its
The
far-
The French
to
Du
fruit
caused
it
to be
In
New
is
is
fruit.
The word
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
marmalade
quince,
said to
is
marmdo.
149
and
and
" They
Tbe
nurse
Juliet, the
Lady
tells
delicacy.
In
Komeo
Capulet,
When
this rose.
Tbonght,
Pansy.
"And
there
is
Shakspeare,
" Lilies
There
is
no end of
my
fanciful
flowers be."
names
mother.
among
the Germans,
beth gives us
its origin':
little step-,
Queen
Flying'
And
13*
Eliza-
DICTIONARY OF TBE
150
Time, White
Poplar.
leaves,
its
and
night.
Timidity, Four
o'Cloch, or
Marvel of Pern.
See p,
69.
madness.
Treachery,
Whortleberry, or BucMeberry.
fair
Proud of
required
all
Monkshood, or Aconite.
this advantage,
he
Pelops,
who wished
to obtain
he would
if
take out the pin which held his master's chariot wheels.
He
did so; thecar was upset, and CBnomaiis was killed; but, expiring,
Its pretty,
sea.
this shrub,
shore,
which resembles a
little
most
efiects
as the
of mineral origin,
who caused
is
it
it
to spring
it
to
Aconite
and
it
was the
LANaUAQE OF FLOWERS.
151
It is
Trutb,
Bitteraweet, or
all
now used
who were no
as a powerful
and intermittent
longer
remedy
fevers.
Woody Nightshade.
Vitss.
Cgelessnegg, Queen of
Uselessness
is
the
UtUlty,
Graas..
See p.
17.
it
be changed to Neglected
DICTIONARY OS THE
152
Talu-glory,
Byd/ra/ngea, or Bortenaia.
a great favorite.
Valu
ts
Pretty,
fields.
but
We
scentless
flowers,
Cockle,
See p.
61.
51.
Voluptuouanegg,
See p.
p. 81.
Tuberose,
61,
H,
LANOUAOE OF FLOWERS.
153
heal the
whose name
used
it
to
wounds of Telephus.
Warmth
o* leeling, Peppermint.
chill
WIteat.
Welcome,
See p.
55.
Than the
fairest rose
of the
Ground Lawtl.
first
Summer
prime
time
.'
DICTIONARY OF TEE
154
And
How
S. N. Jenki,
Wisdom,
WTvite Mulberry.
Witliout preteuaion,
There
finish
about
the rest of
irregular,
the leaf
Cimna'tnon Hose.
is
this rose.
its
Its color is
glowing
Yet
ragged growth.
is
sometimes very
sisterhood,
it is
prettj'.
ered in bud.
may
it
it is
so poisonous
to their sheep.
Tou
This fragrant
fruit
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
155
Thomson
it
thus apostrophizes
to
it
England in 1690.
Xou
are radiant
Tour beauty
cbamis. Garden
\ritli
Sanv/nculus,
is -vain, Hibiscus,
soul.
coal,
Herbert,
To
And
fickle
subject
ia
rortuue's power.
to a million of mishaps
And
It to a clod of clay;
Suns never
is divine.
to decay."
Lord Vaux.
The African
hibiscus
is
some conservatory
in
be likely to forget
its
The Chinese
spindle tree
for spindles
and
makes
pencils.
my
heart,
pretty hedges.
Spyiidle Tree,
Its
wood
is
used
it.
LAlSfOVAQE OF FLOWEBS.
156
Ice
Tour presence
me,
re-vtves
PUmt,
Boaema/ry.
is
made
firom rosemary.
Toot
qualities surpass
your cbanus,
JUignonette,
See p.
S8.
By
its pvirity
Tonthfnlness,
Crocus,
DICTIONARY
TEANSLATING A BOUQUET.
Acacia (Common),
...
v.
Locust.
Acacia (Hose),
Elegance.
Acanthus,
Art.
Adonis (Flos)
Painful recollections.
Agnus
Coldness
Castus,
Agrimony,
life
without love.
Gratitude.
Almond,
Giddiness; heedlessness.
14
(167)
158
DICTIONARY FOR
Aloe,
Bitterness.
Amaranth,
Immortality.
Amaryllis
Anemone
Pride.
(Garden),
Anemone (Windflower),
Angelica,
Illness.
Desertion.
Inspiration.
.-
Apple Blossom,
Preference.
Arbor
Unchanging
Vitae,
Ash,
Grandeur.
Aspen
Sighing.
friendshipi
Asphodel,
Aster (Double German),
Variety.
Aster (Large-flowered),
Afterthought.
Bachelor's Button,
v.
Bluebottle.
Balm Mint,
Pleasantry.
Balm of Gilead,
Healing.
Balsamine,
Impatience.
Barberry,
Petulance; sourness.
Hatred.
Basil,
Bay,
V.
Beech,
Bee
Orchis,
Laurel.
Prosperity.
v.
Orchis.
Bindweed,
Humility.
Birch,
Grace.
TBANSLATINi^ A BOUQUET.
Bittersweet Nightshade,
Black Bryony,
Black Mulberry,
Black Poplar,
Truth.
v.
Bryony.
v.
Mulberry.
......
Blackthorn, or Sloe,
.'
Poplar.
Difficulties.
Bladder Tree,
Frivolous
Bluebottle,
Delicacy.
Blue Violet,
Passion Flower.
Violet.
Borage
Abruptness.
Box,
Stoicism.
Briers,
Envy.
Brompton Stock,
amusement
v.
Gillyflower.
Broom,
Neatness.
Bryony (Black),
Be my
Buckbean,
Calmness
Bugloss,
Falsehood.
Burdock,
Buttercup
support.
;
repose.
Importunity.
v.
Crowfoot.
Cabbage,
Profit.
Calla
Feminine
Camellia,
Gratitude.
delicacy.
Camomile,
Energy
Candytuft,
Indifierence.
in adversity-
15
DICTIOlTARY FOB
160
Canterbury Bell,
....
Cardinal Plower
Carnation,
Celery Crowfoot,
Constancy.
Distinction.
v.
love.
Crowfoot.
Cherry,
A good education.
Chestnut,
Do me justice.
Chiccory,
Frugality.
Chickpea,
v.
Chickweed (Red),
Chrysanthemum,
....
v.
Vetch.
PimperneL
Cinnamon Tree,
Forgiveness of injuries.
Cinquefoil,
A beloved daughter.
Circe,
V.
Nightshade.
Cistus
Surety.
Clematis,
Artifice.
Cockle,
Vain
Coltsfoot,
Columbine,
Folly.
Coreopsis,
Always
cheerful.
Coriander,
Hidden
merit.
Com
is
Riches.
Corn Flower,
v.
Bluebottle.
Corn Poppy,
v.
Poppy.
Cornelian Cherry,
Cowslip,
....
Continuance
Native grace
duration.
Crocus,
Youthfulness.
Crowfoot,
Ingratitude.
Crown Imperial
Power.
Cypress,
Mourning.
pensiveness.
TBANSLATINO A BOUQUET.
161
Daisy (Garden),
novelty.
I share
...
your
feelings.
I will think of
it.
Dandelion,
Oracle.
Datura,
Deceitful charms.
Dew
Serenade.
Plant,
Dittany of Crete
Birth.
Dodder,
Ebony Tree
Blackness.
Eglantine
Poetry.
Compassion.
Elder,
Elecampane,
Enchanter's Nightshade,
.-
Tears.
v.
Nightshade.
Always remembered.
Everlasting,
Perpetual pleasure.
Everlasting Pea,
14*
DICTIONABT FOB
162
Fennel,
Porce
Fern
Sincerity.
.
Filbert,
Btrength.
Hazel.
Fir,
Elevation.
Flax,
Flos Adonis,
Painful recollections.
Forget
Forget-me-not
Four
o'clock,
w.
me
not.
Marvel of Peru.
Foxglove
Occupation.
Fraxinella,
Fire.
Fuchsia,
Taste;
fragility.
Intrinsic worth.
Geranium (Oak),
A melancholy
I prefer you.
Gentian,
Geranium (Rose),
Geranium
(Scarlet)
(Common),
Gillyflower
Gillyflower (Stock),
Goats' Hue,
mind.
Silliness.
Lasting beauty.
.
Promptness.
Beason.
TRANSLATING A BOUQUET.
Gold Basket,
Tranquillity.
Grape Vine
Intemperance.
Grass,
Utility.
Greek Valerian,
Kupture.
Golden Rod
Encouragement.
Gorse, or Furze,
Anger.
Harebell,
Hetirement.
Hawthorn,
Hope.
Hazel
Heconciliation
Heart's-ease,
i>.
Pansy.
Heath,
Solitude.
Heliotrope
Intoxication
Henbane,
Blemish;
fault.
Beauty
vain.
Hibiscus,
Holly,
'
...'....
is
Foresight.
HoUyhodk,
Fecundity
Honesty,
Satin Flower.
ambition.
Bonds of love.
Honeysuckle,
Hop,
Injustice.
......
Horse-chestnut, .....
Hornbeam,
Houstonia,
Ornament.
Luxury.
e.
Innocence.
Vain-glory; heartlessness.
Benevolence.
Hyacinth,
Hydrangea,
I adore you.
163
DICTIONARY FOR
164
Your looks
Ice Plant,
Indian Plum,
Privation.
Innocence,
Innocence.
Iris
(Common
Iris
(German),
Garden),
freeze me.
Message.
Flame.
Ivy,
Piiendship.
Jasmine (White)
Amiability.
Jonquil
Desire.
Juniper,
Asylum;
aid.
Laburnum,
Pensive beauty.
Larch,
Boldness; audacity.
Larkspur,
Lightness
levity.
THANSLATINO A BOUQUET.
,-.
_
.
,
\
Laurel (American),
f
.
<
I
Laurel
Glory
Laurestine,
I die if neglected.
victory.
Layatera,
Sweet disposition.
Lavender,
Mistrust.
Lemon
Prudence.
Lettuce
Coolness*
'
Lilac (Purple),
Lilac (White)
Youth.
Lily (Water)
Eloquence.
Lily (White),
Majesty
Return of happiness.
Linden, or Lime,
....
purity.
Conjugal love.
Liverwoi^t,
Confidence.
Locust
Platonic love.
Lucern,
Life.
Lupine,
Dejection.
Madder,
Calumny.
Magnolia,
Perseverance.
Maiden Hair
Manchineel Tree,
Discretion.
....
165
Falseness.
Mandrake
Itarity.
Maple
Reserve.
DICTIONARY
166
Marigold (Garden),
Marigold (Rainy),
Marshmallow,
....
.
Despair.
Seneficence.
Timidity.
Welcome.
Mayflower,
Safiron,
....
Mezereon,
......
Mock
Your
qualities
past.
[charms.
surpass
War.
Milfoil,
Mistletoe,
Mignonette,
Milkweed,
Grief; chagrin.
A storm.
Marvel of Peru
Meadow
FOB,
.......
.......
Orange,
Monkshood,
Hope
in misery.
I surmount everything.
Uncertainty.
......
Treachery.
Morning Glory,
Coquetry.
Moss,
Maternal love.
Good
Mugwort
Mulberry (Black),
Mulberry (White),
....
....
luck
Wisdom.
Mushroom,
Suspicion.
Musk
Weakness.
Plant,
happiness.
Myrtle,
Love.
Narcissus,
Egotism.
Nasturtium,
Patriotism.
your
TRANSLATING A BOUQUET.
Nettle,
Cruelty.
Nightshade (Enchanter's),
Sorcery.
Oak
Hospitality.
Oleander,
Beware.
Olive,
Peace.
Orange Flower,
Chastity.
Orchis (Bee)
Error.
Orchis (Spider),
.....
Osier,
Osmunda,
Skill.
Frankness.
.......
Oxalis,
V.
Reyerie.
Wood
sorreL
Pansy
Thought.
Parsley
Festivity.
Passion Flower
Devotion
Patience,
Peach Blossom,
Peony
faith.
Patience.
.-
am
your captive.
Ostentation.
167
DICTIONARY POR
168
Peppermint,
Warmth
Periwinkle,
Sweet memories.
Our
Phlox,
......
Pimpernel,
Rendezvous
change.
Endurance.
Pine,
Pine-apple
You
Pink (Red),
Pure
Plane, or Flatane,
....
are perfect.
love.
Genius.
Keep your
Plum
Plum
of feeling.
......
(Indian),
Plum (Wild)
Polemony
Independence.
(Blue),
ti.
Pomegranate,
Greek Valerian.
Conceits
Pompion, or Pumpkin,
Poplar (Black),
promises.
Indian Plum.
....
Crossness
Courage.
coarseness.
Poplar (White)
Time.
Poppy (Com),
Consolation.
Poppy (White)
Sleep.
Potato,
Benevolence.
Modest worth.
Primrose,
Privet, or
Prim
Purple Scabious,
Prohibition.
....
Mourning.
Uselessness.
Temptation.
TBAN8LATIN0 A BOUQUET.
Banunculus (Garden),
You
Beeds,
Music.
Eest-harrow
Obstacle.
Rhododendron,
169
Agitation.
Hose Acacia,
v.
Acacia.
Bosebud,
Confession of ioye.
Hose (Cinnamon)
Without pretension.
Rose (Guelder),
....
Rose (Hundred-leaved),
v.
.
Rose Leaf,
Snowball.
The Graces.
I never trouble.
Rose (Monthly)
Rose (Moss)
Rose (Musk)
Capripious beauty.
Rose (White),
Eose (Wild
Love.
Silence.
Single),
Bose (Yellow)
Simplicity.
Infidelity.
{Bemembrance
revives me.
Bue
Disdain.
Rush,
Docility.
15
your presence
170
DICTIONARY FOR
Saffiron Crocusj
Do
Sage,
Esteem.
....
Animosity.
Sardonia,
Irony.
Satin Flower,
Forgetfiilness.
Scratchweed,
Roughness.
Sensitive Plant,
Sensitiveness
Serpent Cactus,
Horror.
Naivete.
Snapdragon,
Presumption.
Snowball,
Goodness.
Snowdrop,
Consolation
Speedwell,
Fidelity.
......
Star of Bethlehem,
Stock,
v.
....
V.
a friend in adver-
Orchis.
Perfect excellence.
Strawberry,
Succory
[sity.
v,
Chiccory.
Sumach
Splendid misery.
Sunflower,
False riches.
Sweet
Basil,
[heart.
Spindle Tree,
Spiraea,
modesty.
Prudence.
Silverweed,
Spider Orchis,
v.
Basil.
TRANSLATING A BOUQUET.
Sweet Brier,
Sweet Pea,
v.
......
Sweet Sultan,
Sweet William,
171
Eglantine.
Departure.
Happiness.
.....
Syringa,
Finesse.
Fraternal love.
Tare,
Vice.
Teasel
Misanthropy.
Thistle
Austerity.
Thorn Apple,
Disguise.
Thrift
Sympathy.
Thyme,
Activity.
Trailing Arbutus,
o.
Tremella,
Mayflower.
Kesistance.
Tuberose,
Voluptuousness.
Tulip,
Declaration of love.
Valerian (Common),
Valerian (Bed),
Accommodating
Facility.
disposition.
DICTIONARY FOS
172
Venus's Looking-glass,
Flattery.
Verbena
Sensibility.
Veronica
Speedwell.
v.
Enchantment.
Vervain,
Vetch,
I cling
Vine,
V.
to.
Violet (Blue),
Modesty.
Violet (White)
Purity
Virgin's
Bower
Wall Flower,
Water
Lily,
Weeping Willow,
Wheat,
White
v.
...
candor.
Clematis.
Fidelity in misfortune.
V.
Lily.
Melancholy.
Wealth.
V.
Lily.
White Mulberry,
V.
Mulberry.
White Poplar,
V.
Poplar.
White Poppy,
V.
Poppy.
V.
Rose.
V.
Violet.
Lily,
White Bose,
White
Violet,
Whortleberry,
Treachery.
Plum.
Wild Plum,
t).
Wild Rose,
V.
Rose.
V.
Osier.
Willow (Basket),
Willow (Common),
thee.
Grape Vine.
Forsaken.
TSANSLATING A BOUQUET.
Willow Herb,
Pretension.
Windflower,
Wood
v.
Anemone.
Joy.
Sorrel,
Wormwood,
Absence.
Yarrow,
Yew,
Milfoil.
Sadness.
Yoke Elm,
V.
Hornbeam.
Zinnia,
15*
moiam your
absence.
173
" I mast
flU
np
With
baleful
Kany
for
None but
" Flowers
of onrs
many
virtues excellent,
Dance in the
step,
many
in their class,
mass."
Syron.
(174)
of mention
their
the allusions
made
to
beauty,
them by various
on
worthy
istill
account
of
useiiilness,
or
authors.
(176)
APPENOJX.
176
American,
False Co^vslip,
or
The name
signifies
twdve
Dodecatlieon media.
divinities,
is
so
beautiful that a botanist might well fable that the whole circle
is
it.
Another
plant, the
marsh marigold.
its
It is a brilliant yellow
little later.
The famous
" Dead Sea fruits that tempt the eye.
But turn to ashes on the lips,"
ascertained
to
outwardly
fair,
fleet chaplain,
it,
An
while
In the
he writes
in
is
They
things,
are
And on some
low shrubbs
somewhat
fayre
APPENDIX.
touch them, and they moulder
all
177
pluck greedily
" The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew
Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed;
This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste
Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay
Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit
Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste
With spattering noise rejected; oft they essayed,
Ajnun, IVakeroblii,
macuUUwm.
Wild Tnmlp,
JadK-ln-the-Fnlptt.
is
an arrow or dart.
juice, very acrid,
The acrimony
heat,
is
come from
said to
The
which
root,
is
when
in wet, shady
in the
its leaves,
summer.
shaped like
fresh, contains a
milky
dissipated
a saponaceous quality.
application of
May
late
Arum
Powdered
It is also
it is
said to
APPENDIX.
178
Belladonna,
It is called
or
belladonna.'
As a medicine
made use of
it
its
were so intoxicated by
it
They
fair
as a cosmetic.
it
Sauvages supposes
practitioners.
it
Dr.
Wood-
That
Blackberry.
talces
is
thought to be intended.
familiar,
we cannot
delicious flavor
made from
it,
are
be
The
cordial
APPENDIX,
179
It
Though woodbines
O'er
Thou
Thy
For
satin-threaded flowers;
When
sing'st
hymns
to
are
still,
them!
And
When
Titania gives
commands them
Bottom
si
to
fruit
180
APPENDIX.
BncUthom.
The
Jthamnus caiharticus.
arable,
in
mixed with
water colors.
taste.
fine
yellow dye.
Calceolaria.
There seems to be an
they are favorite
Chili
and Peru.
infinite variety
florists' flowers.
of calceolarias, and
They are
all
natives of
ealceolus, a slipper,
flowers.
Tropeeolvm peregrimim.
around
and, twisted
slender
It
blossoms profusely,
effect.
The
it
since
their
James
I.,
time.
tells
Parkinson,
all
who was
botanist
to
King
of plumes.
APPENDIX.
Catalpa.
181
Catdtpa cordifolia*
The name
catalpa
of Indian origin.
is
The showy
flowers
We
chestnut.
Chelidonium majus.
It
was
also
recommended
We
have
we should expect
remedy, for
it
to find
it
commonly along
a useful
grows
It
is
broken
sends out a yellow, milky juice, which stains like iron rust
falls
upon.
all it
Centaury. Chironea
To
this plant,
{Ranunculus ficaria.)
powers
refine."
Dodstey.
earth.
is
wound
in his
It is inodorous,
but so
hence
its
name.
terras,
or gall of the
Christmas Rose,
Blacb Sellebore.
or
native of Austria
Britain in 1596,
and
in mild weather,
it
16
is
and
Italy.
It
HeUebortis niger.
APPENDIX.
182
The blossom
is
remedy
for madness.
Coffee.
Coffea ardbica.
The
coffee berries,
on an evergreen,
The use of
The
first
in 1672
have begun
It
was used
in Marseilles in 1644'
introduced in 1652.
Palgrave,
its
it
little
perfection
Armenian
encouragement
According to a recent
the nectar in
a native
and sweet-
named Pascal,
that he
is
in Constantinople in 1554.
The
fifteen
traveller,
Mr,
we go
to Arabia.
Cuckoo Bud.
Simply the old name for the buttercup.
Dentzla.
Early in spring every greenhouse displays this pretty plant
covered with a profusion of white blossoms.
CHna and
It is
a native of
who
APPENDIX.
offlcinalis.
that,
Which
183
film
removed
Had
The
he had much to
see.'*
As
it is
remedy
been made
result
it
is
The
9Iist,
damascena.
The seeds of
(which gave
it
the
name of
and
184
APPENDIX,
We
of pepper.
oiu:
re-
Among
is this
feet,
Jtibes gpeciosum.
magnificent gooseberry.
and
is
It
Ecarlet flowers,
weeks with
six
five
brilliant
it
Prometheus
is
and contain a
for tinder.
villoia.
It? stems
fire
from heaven
in a
feet high,
of medicine.
Ground
This
is
chestnut.
Bunium
bulbocastanujn.
or glycine apios,
is
common
in America,
great use of
them
and very
ttiberosa,
nutritious.
APPENDIX.
We
known
to the
the water
and
ancients,
hemlock were
was given to
185
The
Socrates.
for swellings
and pains
in the joints.
it
for
cancers, &c.
Horseradlgb,
Horseradish
CochUaria armorada.
is
It is a strong stimulant,
of mustard, in poultices.
remedy
for hoarseness
A sirup
of this root
is
in place
an excellent
Jemgalem Artichoke.
The word Jerusalem
Beliamthus tvberosus.
is,
in this case,
a curious corruption
16*
It
is
a kind
APPENDIX,
186
The
common
in old-fashioned gardens.
Judas' Tree,
The
or
Red-bud.
brilliant clusters of
and
Cercia canadensis.
its
A botanist
I.adleg' Slipper.
great
many
There
is
it.
CypHpedimn.
varieties of this curious
some
tells
common humble
Some
are yellow,
some
white,
purple.
Xiady'a
Smock.
Cardamine.
Frequent allusions to
English poets.
this
It
was
also, for
Another name
is
Cuckoo-flower.
APPENDIX.
187
X<yohnl.
comprises
The cottony
robin, &c.
leaves of
several with
London
some
handsome
ragged
pride, the
have been
varieties
Maijoram. Origanvm
is
found
native
here; the
This herb
is
Thus Virgil:
~~
..^Ineid,
And
Book
2., I,
698.
Catullus:
The Scotch
places
the
The elegant
call
this
brilliant
peasantry use
its
Sorhtta atnericaita.
tree
the rowan.
white flowers,
In some
ornaments to a
shrul^tjgry,
it
Words-
APPENDIX.
188
No
By
How
the
pool
mullein.
Verbascum fhapsus.
Every reader
downy
is
and
leaves,
together
on a
mullein.
It is emollient
is
made of
large,
clumsy
which
distinguish
astringent,
the
Gerarde
cataplasms.
calls it
One
stalk,
and gently
soft,
crowded
piJmonary complaints of
it
was
cattle.
to intoxicate
fish.
Onion, Allium
There
esteemed
says,
is
cepa.
in
Israelites, after
divide
Bhind
have
known and
Christ.
regretted
them
it
is
no wonder the
loss
of
this
delicacy.
The Egyptians
APPENDIX.
with pieces of meat;
delicious
viands
preparation they
frhich
of
The
Paradise."
189
onions
consider
it
of
warm
so
of the
countries
are
and
milder
qualities,
in
flavor.
This
vegetable
possesses
testify to
healing
the efficacy of
onion sirup.
Petunia,
The
They
come
showy
flower, so ornamental
to us from
South America.
Purple
liOosestrlfe.
I/ythrwm salicaria.
The color
it
is
in
tall
brilliant
fine
and
otfireiveed.
border flower.
This
it
is
APPENDIX,
190
Bice.
Oryza
saliva.
America
is
of very
modem
date.
at
Another authority
says, "
all
the
A brigantine from
little
the
seed lice
left,
name of Woodward.
From
part of this he
how
to clean
it.
It
was
it
The
it is
thought to exceed
On the Importance of
(London, 1701.)
APPENDIX.
191
The
first
of these
is
American.
The sdlicomia
pickles.
is
also
sea-coast, -and
its
'
used as
are
tion of the
heriacea.
On Dover
is
a corrup-
heights
Edgar
exclaims to Gloster,
" stand
And
dizzy
'tis
still.
How
fearful
low
Sassafras.
Lavnm
sassafras.
became known
when
first
A tincture
it.
It
of the bark
is still
it is
in vogue for
generally used
APPENDIX.
192
senega, and
AHsMo-
chia serpentaria.
Dr. Tennent
called the
first
and dropsy.
was
diseases
but
its
root.
and
efficacy in various
modem
practice.
seal
of
varieties
The mucilaginous
it
roots
Old Gerarde
while
considered
marks on the
make an
likewise
be of marvellous
is
It is strongly aromatic,
Solomon's Seal.
it is
and
seal,
applied, taketh
stamped,
away
in one
night, or
gotten by
fals,
or
hasty husband's
Sugar-cane.
fists,
their
or such like."
Saccharum
officinarwm.
Sugar, like that which appears every day upon our tables,
it
in Theophrastus.
allusion
this prlcelpss
mentions that
it
la Plata.
The
to
APPENDIX.
193
made
it
was
blossom
late
Sundefv. Drosera,
It is
found
in
In Crabbe's Borough,
Our busy
Tansy. Tanacetum
called
this
plant by the
pleasant odor.
On
account of
and send
its
name of
The curled
intense bitterness,
it
was
formerly eaten in puddings and otherwise at Easter, to symbolize the bitter herbs
at the Passover.
17
AFPESDIX,
194
Tea.
Tea
is
small evergreen
Owing
we know
very
little
one
as
may
ascertain
by
another.
was
It
first
introduced
into
price.
it
is
it
tea,
came
into use.
Tbom
or
Jamestofm Weed.
Datura
stramonium.
Even
knew
its
The
The
root
is
said to
it is
it
proves
old
properties;
the odor of
smoked
it
is
used in
is
inflamed tumors.
Toad FIoz.
common
Antirrhinum
linaria.
of butter-and-eggs.
Linneeus says
plants,
is
it
it
it
was used
to poison
An
flies.
infa-
APPENDIX.
and the leaves in dropsy.
in
195
poultices.
Tohacco was
imported into
Spain
sixteenth century.
de M^dicis, in 1560, as a
from Tobago
or, as
in
the
West
Indies,
pipe.
spite
is either
or Tobasco in Mexico,
practised,
fashion, except
we
is
Denmark was
"
called
'henbane of Peru.'
it
with which
lienbane,
we
No
preparation of hyoscyamus
Trumpet Flower.
oil
by an
of tobacco
result."
Bignonia radicans.
this
brilliant
Bignon.
is
in honor of the
Abb6
196
APFMNDIX.
Tulip Tree,
lAriodendron tulipifera.
known
surpasses
also
almost
The
as white-wood
every other
in
and the bark, which has an aromatic odor, has been used as a
tonic and febrifuge.
The wood
signifies
is
valuable for
lily tree.
many
purposes.
HE
air
smoke
of
and
cities,
poisonous
tions, is fatal to
and
all
true
teavy with
many
Cowley prayed,
" Ah,
yet, ere I
life.
17*
May
exhalaflowers
(197)
198
And
APPENDIX.
longingly cried,
"
woods
fields,
The happy
when, when
shall I
be made
Where
all
for good."
Give
me
sings,
indulgent Fate,
yet, before I die,
'Mong paths so
and
lost
may
trees so high.
ne'er invade.
My
unshaken
liberty.
AH
that did in
Heaven bestow,
Eden grow,
As breaking through
By
All within
my
downy
easy reach
peach,
;
that shade."
APPENDIX,
We
find
"
Pope
Happy
199
the
care
In
his
own ground.
Whose
Whose
flocks supply
trees in
summer
yield
In winter
Blessed
fields
him with
him shade.
fire.
with bread,
attire
find
slide soft
away.
Sound
sleep
by night
And
With meditation."
On
as follows
Now
o'er
laid,
my
head.
Hangs
Of
to
do with you
200
APPENDIX.
Joy, rose-lipped dryad, loves to dwell
lu sunny
field or
mossy
cell
The
Or view, with
The crowded
cornfield,
While beauty,
health,
blooming mead;
and innocence
Nymphs
Conduct
me
Deep
in the
Where haunts
Where
to
bosom of the
vale,
Wrapped
in
Her eyes
fixed steadfast
pine,
on the ground.
By
saints alone
and hermits
me
St.
seen.
wise.
James's to despise
fops,
Where
Meet
slaves
to adore
some
full,
ye courts, be great
all
who
your
lofty door.
floor
will
sltill;
old,
APPENDIX.
In Tain you search
she
201
not there
is
On
Ever by each
close allied.
other's side."
Cunningham's
gins,
this
Child.
He
*'
free as air
Bom
Lies odorous
Fed 'mid
Nursed
fair;
when
the day
is
new
to sweet
Of such a
fair
'tis
the
woods of June
sweet to sing
and gladsome
thing.
A
A
A
is
narrow
street
And blooming
trees,
Else
is
trellised vines
where
fair
kind
be-
APPENDIX.
202
And
ends,
" Fly from the town, sweet child
Is happiness,
There
is
and
strength,
a lesson in each
On
for health
and wealth.
flower,
and bower;
rightly read.
To
difficult to
Btop
Browne has
before
it
would be
for, as Sir
said,
gardeners,
Thomas
and but
a few
earliest
days
descriptions,
in
come down
to us.
We
shall
204
APPENDIX.
not so hackneyed as
to three descriptions,
The
lieu
That
hill his
snow devours,
all
about perfumed
all
it
sense.
in lavish affluence.
The garden
like
That lay as
if
And
to the
The
azure
a lady
fair
fields
hilly
On which
Ught
Upon a
cut,
flowers-de-Iuce,
Like twinkling
was
In a large round,
The
threw.
spirits flew.
others.
In
many
first is
leaves, did
shew
cast.
And
gilt.
with green
fillets
them bound.'
APPENDIX.
The next
"
from Langhorne
is
bower he framed
What
(for
205
ho could frame
As
In scenes where
"Waved
Yet was
fair
all
wrouglit in simple
it
Had
wove
Armida's wand
show
Orient shores
Or yielded here
The wild
rose
The woodbine
The ash
In
The
all
thyme
The
The
lover's bower.
Combined
"With
to
fair.
brown
hill's breast,
violet of
"Was
flower
all
sky-woven
vest,
18
APPENDIX.
206
Andrew
exquisite
Marvell's
unabridged,
though
we think
comes
G-arden
the
last
stanza but
truth.
THE GARDEN.
"
How
And
men
vainly
To win
themselves amaze
Whose
short
all
Does prudently
While
the flowers
To weave
and
trees
do
close.
And
Innocence, thy
sister
dear?
Your sacred
is all
will
grow
but rude
To
No
So amorous as
Fond
Cut
How
Little, alas
they
know
name;
or heed
her exceed!
Fair trees
No name
shall but
last,
APPENDIX.
When we
The
who
gods,
Still in
207
so,
grow
laurel
And Pan
Not
nymph, but
as a
What wondrous
for a reed.
The
I lead!
life is this
my
head
nectarine,
Into
my
their
wine
Stumbling on melons, as
Insnared with flowers, I
I pass
fall
on grass.
Withdraws into
The mind,
Does
Yet
happiness;
its
own resemblance
Aunihilating
all that's
To a green thought
Or
at
find
Here
less
straight
it
its
seas,
made
in a green shade.
some
fruit tree's
mossy
root.
My
APPENDIX.
208
And
till
and
it sits
claps
"Waves in
its
sings,
its silver
wings,
flight,
light.
state,
What
To wander
Two
To
How
Of
solitary there
flowers
and herbs
this dial
drew
new
as
it
Computes
How
works,
its
th' industrious
bee
--^S<5*S&*DS^^
Anemone CWindflower),
113
Angelica,
128
Appendix,
Page
Acanthus,
25
Aconite
150
A^us Gastus
&i
Agrimony,
123
Heap of Flowers,
76
175
Apple of Peru,
194
Apples of Sodom,
April,
176
23
Artichoke, Jerusalem,
Arum,
1S5
177
Ash,
123
Almonfl
19
Ash, Mountain,
187
Aloe,
81
Asphodel,
141
Amaranth
74
Amaryllis
138
American Cowslip,
Anemone, Garden,
...
18*
Aster, Large-flowered,
171)
August,
126
Autumn,
61
106
S3
60
(209)
210
INDEX.
INDEX.
Darnel,
51
Datura,
58
Dead Leaves,
....
December,
132
77
Deutzia,
182
Dewberries,
179
Dew
115
Plant
of Flowers,
....
105
Banquet,
157
Directions,
101
Dittany of Crete,
...
Dodder
109
132
Uglantine
45
Elder,
Elecampane,
....
Endive,
Ill
148
122
Euphrasy, or Eyebright,
February,
Fennel
Fennel, Giant,
Fennel Flower,
....
....
183
86
147
184
183
Fern,
211
.
INDEX.
212
Harebell
Hawthorn,
Hazel
Heart'B-ease
Heath,
Heliotrope,
...
Jack-in-the-Pulpit,
23
Jamestown Weed,
1*1
January
Jasmine,
...
.
177
IW
81
JS
31
Jerusalem Artichoke,
62
Jeux Floraux,
....
163
95
181
Jonquil,
113
Hemlock,
185
Judas Tree,
186
Hiblscne,
155
July,
47
82
June,
36
Juniper,
87
Hellebore, Black,
Holly,
HoHyhook
119
Honesty,
121
28
Honeysuckle
Hornbeam,
135.
Horse-Chestnut,
...
18
Horseradish,
185
Houatonia,
127
150
Huckleberry
Hundred-Leaved Rose,
149
Hyacinth,
108
Hydrangea,
1S2
Indian Plum,
Innocence,
Introduction,
Iris,
Iris,
Ivy,
German,
.
Kalmia
1^4
213
INDEX.
147
Lavatera,
Lavender,
Lemon,
1S2
139
18
Lilac,
Lily,
Water,
115
Lily,
White,
63
30
Lime, or Linden,
33
52
Locust,
London
Pride,
Love
in a Mist,
187
183
Love-Iies-bieeding,
Lnpine,
75
113
Lychnis,
187
Magnolia,
137
Mauchiueel Tree.
119
Mandrake,
1-10
Maple,
March,
143
17
Marigold,
56
Marigold, Bainy,
138
Maijoram,
187
Marslimallow,
51
Marvel of Peru,
69
May,
30
Mayflower,
Meadow
Saffron.
Meadow
Sweet.
ITignnnotte,
Milfoil,
153
68
151
58
.
153
Mistletoe,
....
214
Pansy,
INDEX.
INDEX.
Scarlet Lychnis,
215
INDEX.
216
White
Lilac,
White
Lily,
ISC
63
White Poplar,
150
White Poppy,
146
White Eoao,
150
Wild Plum,
127
Wild Turnip,
177
Willow Herb,
Winter,
113
77
43
Whortleberry,
Willow,
Windflower,
18
138
Yarrow,
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