FLORAL EMBLEMS. 63 



ARCHITECTURE. 



C A N D Y -T u F T . — Iheris . 



*' Our father's next, in architecture skill'd 

 Cities for use, and forts for safety build : 

 Then palaces and lofty domes arose ; 

 These for devotion, and for pleasure those." 



Blackmore. 



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This little plant has been made the emblem 

 of architecture, because its flowers are disposed 

 in stories from the bottom of the stalk to the 

 top, producing- a resemblance to the open co- 

 lumns of one of the most delicate orders of ar- 

 chitecture. 



