FLORAL EMBLEMS. 03 



ARCHITECTURE. 



CANDY-TUFT. Iberis. 



"Our father's next, in architecture skill'd 

 Cities for use, and forts for safety build : 

 Then palaces and lofty domes arose ; 

 These for devotion, and for pleasure those." 



Blackmore. 



This little plant has been made the emblem 

 of architecture, because its flowers are disposed 

 in stories from the bottom of the stalk to the 

 top, producing a resemblance to the open co- 

 lumns of one of the most delicate orders of ar- 

 chitecture. 



