56 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



will ask, who has not felt the bitterness of 



absence ? 







" In spring the fields, in autumn hills I love ; 

 At morn the plains, at noon the shady grove ; 

 But Delia always : absent from her sight, 

 Nor plains at morn, nor groves at noon delight." 



Pope's Past. 



ACCOMMODATING DISPOSITION. 



VALERIAN. Valeriana Rubra. 



" Gay loosetrife there and pale Valerian spring." 



Scott. 



This plant propagates itself with equal fa- 

 cility in the rich borders of the parterre, or 

 in the dry crevices of old walls, hence the 

 emblem. It was formerly called Setewale. 

 Chaucer says, 



" Ther springen herbes grete and smale, 

 The Licoris and the Setewale." 



