ries, and poetical emblems, that 
have ever been composed or col¬ 
lected.” 
By Phillips, and other writers, it 
is shown that this Floral Lan¬ 
guage is of high antiquity ;—the 
Chinese had their Floral Alphabet, 
probably in the time of Confucius, 
or earlier,— and of almost univer¬ 
sal acceptance, being more prac¬ 
ticed, and consequently more sys¬ 
tematized, ifi those countries, such 
as Turkey and Persia, where the 
flowers are most abundant, and 
richest in scent and hue. 
“ By all those token-flowers that tell 
What words can ne’er express so well 
