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WALLFLOWER.— The Wallflower Cheiranthus Cheivt) 

 belongs to the family of Stocks, and was, in fadt, introduced from 

 Spain under the name of Wall Stock-Gillofer, which afterwards 

 became Wall Gilliflower, and finally Wallflower. In Turner's 



' Herbal,' it is called Wall-Gelover and Hartis Ease. Tradition 



gives a poetical origin to this flower. It tells that, in bygone days, 

 a castle stood near the river Tweed, in which a fair maiden was 

 kept a prisoner, having plighted her troth and given her heart's 

 affecTtion to the young heir of a hostile clan; but blood having been 

 shed between the chiefs on either side, the deadly hatred cherished 

 in those lawless days forbade all thoughts of the union. The gallant 

 tried various stratagems to get possession of his betrothed, all of 

 which failed, until at last he gained admission to the castle dis- 

 guised in the garb of a wandering troubadour, and as such he sang 

 before his lady-love, and finally arranged, with the aid of a serving- 

 woman, that the maiden should effecft her escape, while he should 

 await her arrival with a noble courser and armed men. Herrick 

 tells us the conclusion of the story in.the following lines : — 



" Up she got upon a wall, 

 Attempted down to slide withal. 

 But the silken tw^t ointied, 

 So she fell and, bruised, she died. 

 Love in pity of the deed. 

 And her loving luckless speed, 

 Turn'd her to this plant we call 

 Now the Flower of the Wall." 



From the facfl that Wallflowers grew upon old walls, and were 

 seen on the casements and battlements of ancient castles, and 

 among the ruins of abbeys, the minstrels and troubadours were 

 accustomed to wear a bouquet of these flowers as the emblem of 



an affecftion which is proof against time and misfortune. Dreams 



of Wallflowers imply — to a lover that the objeift of his affecflion 

 will be true and constant ; to a sickly person that recovery will 

 shortly follow ; to a lady who dreams that she is plucking the 

 flower for her bouquet, that the worthiest of her admirers has yet 



to propose to her. According to astrologers, the Moon governs 



the Wallflower. 



WALNUT. — The origin of the Walnut-tree is to be found 

 in the story of Carya, the youngest of the three daughters of 

 Dion, king of Laconia. These sisters had received the gift of pro- 

 phecy from Apollo as a reward for the hospitality their father had 

 shown to the god, but on the condition that they were never to mis- 

 use the divine gift, and never to enquire into matters of which it 

 became their sex to remain ignorant. This promise was broken 

 when Bacchus convinced Carya of his love for her. The elder 

 sisters, being jealous, endeavoured to prevent Bacchus from 

 meeting Carya, and he in revenge turned them into stones, and 

 transformed his beloved Carya into the tree so called in Greek — the 



