THYME. 



THYME {Thymus serpyllmn). — Activity. 



The Greeks regarded Thyme as the emblem of Activity. 

 No doubt they observed that its perfume, which stimulates 

 the brain, is very wholesome to elderly people, whose energies 

 it seems to restore. 



Action is characteristic of the soldier, and is always allied 

 with true courage ; wherefore, in days gone by, ladies were 

 often wont to embroider the scarf for their knights with the 

 figure of a bee humming around a .sprig of Thyme. This 

 two-fold symbol implied, moreover, that he who adopted it, 

 was gentle in all his acts. 



TOOTHWORT {Latkrcea squamaria). — CONCEALMENT. 



This plant grows only in the most hidden recesses of the 

 grove, at the foot of large trees, in moist and shady places. 

 Its flowers are nearly always concealed under moss or dry 

 leaves. 



THE TREMBLING POPLAR.— Moaning. 



This beautiful tree which, in the calmest weather, pro- 

 duces by its rustling leaves a sound resembling that of a 

 murmuring brook, seems to moan under the influence of the 

 lightest wind. It would appear to harmonize with the touch- 

 ing notes of the nightingale, when she bewails the loss of 

 her young, as noticed by Virgil : 



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