24 INTRODUCTION. 



expresses more powerfully a desire for good 

 neighbourhood, than all the words of village 

 dialect. 



But to express ourselves more readily by 

 floral emblems, it is necessary that we should 

 lay down grammatical rules for the govern- 

 ment of this silent language before we pro- 

 ceed to the dictionary of emblems. 



The first principle is to observe that the 

 pronoun J, or me, is expressed by inclining 

 the flower to the left, and the pronoun thou, 

 or thee, by sloping it to the right, but when 

 represented by drawings on paper, these po- 

 sitions should be reversed, as the flower should 

 lean to the heart of the person whom it is to 

 signify. 



The articles a, an, and the, may be ex- 

 pressed by a tendril, the first by a single line, 

 , the second by a double ten- 

 by one with 

 three branches 



