20 TI1E LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS. 
Truly tlie real “ Language of Mowers” is no 
system of unmeaning similitudes ; there is a 
deeper significance attached to every plant 
and flower, indeed to every object in nature, 
than the mere sensualist or shallow sentimen- 
talist would imagine ; and here are the words 
of one who has studied them deeply, and 
knows that they are types and characters of the 
glorious revelation, second only to that direct ' 
one which God has given us in the Bible. I 
What says he ? — 
“ Listen to the words of wisdom, 
Uttered by the tongue of truth, 
Tottering age and manly vigour, 
listen ye — and smiling youth.”— II. G. A. 
“ Books are great and glorious agents of ci- 
vilization and happiness. They are the silent 
teachers of mankind, filling the mind with 
wisdom, and strengthening the understanding 
for the strife of action ; making us powerful 
and gentle, wise and humble, at the same 
time. But we cannot be always buried in our 
books ; we must sometimes go out into the 
sunshine, and it is necessary, in order to en- 
