256 THE ASSOCIATIONS OF FLOWERS 
CHAPTER XXX. 
W all- -flower — Ruined Castle — Garden W all -flower — Wild 
W all-flower — Night- scented W all- flower — Moschatel — 
Musk - Mallow — Cruciferous Plants — Stock — Table 
Vegetables — Honesty — Madwort — Candytuft 
Cardamine — Scurvy- grass. 
Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune 
Than ye speak to my heart, little wildlings of June ! 
Of old ruinous castles ye tell : 
I thought it delightful your beauties to find, 
When the magic of nature first breathed on my mind ; 
And your blossoms were part of the spell. 
— Campbell. 
How delicious is the scent of the breeze as it comes to 
us wafted from the numerous wall-flowers, which have 
aspired to the very summit of the old castle’s ivy-covered 
walls, and are gleaming brightly to the sun, and looking 
upward, like Hope above a tomb 1 Then, as the wind 
floats them backwards and forwards, giving a momentary 
lustre to some gloomy arch, they remind one of the pass- 
ing smiles which can sometimes illume even the brow of 
care, and serve but to awaken attention to the melancholy 
contrast. A few centuries since and those now ruined 
battlements stood in all the pride of a strength which it 
might have seemed neither time nor storm should subdue. 
Crowned with their martial v^^arriors, tall plumes and bril- 
liant pennons received the rays now falling upon the wild- 
fiowers; and spirit-stirring echoes were awakened by the 
trumpet, where now are heard only the sound of aerial 
music, as it sweeps around the ruins. Again and again 
returns the “delicate-footed spring,” and those blossoms 
