190 FLORAL SYMBOLISM 



liked the fancy well, but wished to keep the 

 mystic vase, so, to avoid doubling the symbol, 

 they turned the fallen flowers to roses, or roses 

 and carnations, symbols of the divine favour 

 which had fallen upon the maid. It was a 

 graceful exposition of the underlying meaning 

 of the scene, symbolically right and delightful 

 in pictorial effect. 



