244 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



beauty and dispenses its odours when Philomel 

 begins to warble. T. Moore says in Lalla Rookh, 



'* Oh ! sooner shall the rose of May- 

 Mistake her own sweet nightingale. 

 And to some meaner minstrel's lay 

 Open her bosom's glowing veil. 

 Than Love shall ever doubt a tone, 

 A breath of the beloved one." 



PREFERENCE. 



Scarlet Geranium. 



Geranium boasts 



Her crimson honours." 



Cowper, 



This emblem originated from the preference 

 shown by florists to the cultivation of the 



'* Genteel geranium 



With a leaf for all that come.' 



