166 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



A HEART IGNORANT OF LOVE. 



Bud of a white Rose. 



Mythologists tell us that the rose was origi 

 nally white, and that the warmer tint was 

 first given to it by the blood of Venus. 



'* While the enamoured queen of joy 

 Flies to protect her lovely boy. 



On whom the jealous war-god rushes ; 

 She treads upon a thorned rose. 

 And while the wound with crimson flows. 

 The snowy floweret feels her blood, and blushes." 



Catullus. 



