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flowers that denote age grow not in his garden. In 
our catalogue of the flowers of affection at the end of 
this volume, we have thrown out numberless weeds 
which have too long encumbered the flowers in the 
garden of Love. The Tulip, however, is just admis¬ 
sible, and, like many an indifferent word which has 
crept into our English dictionaries, must, like the fly 
in amber, retain its place, because we find it there. 
Scores of others, which have really no meaning in 
them, nor bear any resemblance to the qualities they 
have been chosen to represent, I have rejected with an 
unmerciful hand, and allowed them no place in my 
“Poetical Language of Flowers.” 
