SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS. 9 



The Lady Mary Wortle.y Montague, in 

 supposed to have first made known this east- 

 ern custom to Europeans. When residing 

 at Pera, she sent a Turkish love-letter to a 

 friend in England, from which we extract 

 the botanical emblems. 



?/OD. You are as slender as this clove ! 



You are an unblown rose ! 



I have long loved you, and you have not 



known it. 



Jonquil. Have pity on my passion ! 

 Pear. Give me some hope ! 



A Rose. May you be pleased, and your sorrows 



mine ! 



A Straw. Suffer me to be your slave ! 

 Cinnamon. But rny fortune is yours ! 

 Pepper. Send mo an answer ! 



Her ladyship states that there is no flow- 

 er without a verse belonging to it ; and that 

 it is possih ' to quarrel, reproach, or send 

 letters of passion, friendship, or civility, or 

 even of news without ever inking the fingers. 



The sentiments which in our little hand- 

 book we have ascribed to the flowers, are 

 chiefly derived from the ancients, though 

 some are of a more modern adaptation. The 

 ancients in assigning a flower as an emblem 



