244 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



beauty and dispenses its odours when Philomel 

 begins to warble. T. Moore says in Lalla Rookh, 



" Oh ! sooner shall the rose of May 

 Mistake her own sweet nightingale, 

 And to some meaner minstrel's lay 

 Open her bosom's glowing veil, 

 Than Love shall ever doubt a tone, 

 A breath of the beloved one." 



PREFERENCE. 



SCARLET GERANIUM. 



Geranium boasts 



Her crimson honours." 



Cowper. 



This emblem originated from the preference 

 shown by florists to the cultivation of the 



" Genteel geranium 



With a leaf for all that come." 



