HYDRANGEA. S85 



appellation from the Greek vomg, water, and ayP^, 

 a vessel, in allusion to the quantity of water that 

 these plants require. 



As the Hydrangea is a plant so lately made 

 known in Europe, it has not appeared in the lan- 

 guage of flowers, and as it gives out such mag- 

 nificent blossoms without ever producing fruit, 

 we have made it emblematical of a boaster, 

 whose vaunting words resemble the abortive 

 flowers of the Hydrangea, large and showy, with- 

 out being followed by suitable results. 



