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elation lilies, Lady's tresses, Lady's fingers, 

 Lady's slipper, Lady's smock, Lady's kirtle, 

 Lady's mantle, Lady's delight, and so on, end- 

 lessly. In a lesser litany other saints have their 

 flowers, under the leadership of St Genevieve, 

 the patroness of all flowers, whose own emblem 

 is the iris. St Joseph has a lily ; the cowslip, 

 or schlusselblumen, or keys of heaven, falls 

 naturally to St Peter, while the amaryllis is 

 allotted to St James. The leek, as all men 

 know, belongs to St David, as does the rose to 

 St George, the thistle to St Andrew and the 

 shamrock to St Patrick. To St Agnes is 

 dedicated the black hellebore, although lovers 

 of Tennyson will always associate with her 

 that 



" First snowdrop of the year " 



which lay on the breast of the nun, who under 

 St Agnes' moon prayed for the purity of its 

 snows. To St Gregory belong the daffodils, 

 which used to be locally called Gregories, from 

 their punctual flowering on that saint's day, 

 the twelfth of March. Wherein lay the sym- 

 pathy that gave St Dominic the harebell for 

 his own and who was the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury who chose the lily-of-the-valley, 



