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suggested by their human associations — by their 

 expression. 



Love-in-a-mist, angels' eyes, forget-me-not, and 

 heartsease, are famiUar examples. Heartsease and 

 pansy both strike us as peculiarly appropriate to 

 one of our commonest and most universal garden 

 flowers ; yet we see something besides the sym- 

 pathetic and restful expression which suggested 

 these names in this flower — a certain suggestion 

 of demureness, in fact, reminding those who have 

 seen Guido's picture of the " Adoration of the 

 Virgin," of one of his loveliest angels whose angelical 

 eyes and face reveal some desire for admiration 

 and love in the spectator. And that expres- 

 sion, too, of the pansy named Love-in-idleness, 

 has been described, coarsely or rudely it may be, 

 in some of its country names : " Kiss me behind 

 the garden gate," and, better (or worse) still, " Meet- 

 her - i' - th' - entry -kiss- her -i'-th'- buttery." Of this 

 order of names are None-so-pretty and Pretty 

 maids. Pretty Betsy, Kiss-me-quick. Even such 

 a name as Tears of the blood of Christ does not 

 sound extravagantly fanciful or startling when 

 we look at the glowing deep golden crimson of the 

 wall flower ; nor of a blue flower, the germander 

 speedwell, such names as The more I see you the 



