166 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



A HEART IGNORANT OF LOVE. 



BUD OF A WHITE ROSE. 



Mythologists tell us that the rose was origi 

 nally white, and that the warmer tint was 

 first given to it by the blood of Venus. 



" While the enamoured queen of joy 

 Flies to protect her lovely boy, 



On whom the jealous war-god rushes ; 

 She treads upon a thorned rose, 

 And while the wound with crimson flows, 

 The snowy floweret feels her blood, and blushes." 



Catullus. 



