LETTER XX. 



FLOWEKS, AND THEIR MEUORIES. 



A TOUCHING sentiment lias consecrated certain plants and 

 certain trees to those who have departed this life : the cypress, 

 which elevates its black foliage like a pyramid; the weeping 

 willow, which envelopes a tomb with its pendent branches; 

 the honeysuckle, which grows in cemeteries more beautifully 

 and vigorously than elsewhere, and which spreads a sweet 

 odour, that seems to be the soul of the dead exhaling and 

 ascqjiding to heaven; the periwinkle, with its dark green 

 foliage and blossoms of lapis blue, so fresh and so charm- 



