270 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
are not acquainted with the tree disregard the 
fruit on account of its rough appearance. 
Durability, Cornel cherry tree. Page 245. 
Elegance, Rose Acacia. The art of the toilet can- 
not produce any thing fresher or more elegant 
than the attire of this pretty shrub. Its drooping 
branches, its gay green, its beautiful bunches of 
pink flowers, resembling bows of ribands, all give 
it the appearance of a fashionable female in her 
ball-dress. 
Elevation, Fir-tree. The Fir delights in cold 
regions, and grows there to a prodigious height. 
Eloquence, Lotus. The Egyptians consecrated the 
flowers of the Lotus to the sun, the god of elo- 
quence. This flower closes and sinks into the 
water at sun-set, rising from it and opening again 
as soon as the brilliant luminary reappears above 
the horizon. It constitutes one of the ornaments 
of the head of Osiris. The Indian gods are 
frequently represented floating on the water upon 
a Lotus flower : perhaps an emblem of the earth 
issuing from the bosom of the deep. 
Enchantment, Vervain. Page 142. 
Envy, Bramble. The Bramble, like envy, creeps 
