184 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



INDIFFERENCE. 



Ever-flowering Candy-tuft. — Iberis sempeijiorens. 



In the floral language of Persia, this plant 

 is made the emblem of indifference, because 

 it blossoms alike through the heat of the sum- 

 mer months, and the severity of the winter's 

 frost, equally disregarding the rays of Sol, 

 and the breath of Boreas. 



" IndifF'rence, clad in wisdom's guise. 

 All fortitude of mind supplies ; 

 For, how can stony bowels melt 

 In those who never pity felt?" 



Swift. 



