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INDEX OP THE 
sweetness about its very leaves j and to be nestled near 
them in a green nook is to enjoy a pleasure which 
needs no praise to enhance it. As Touchstone says of 
Audrey, in “As you Like It,”—“ Though a poor 
thing, it is mine own and the Sweet Briar, Rose, or 
Eglantine, has ever been a favorite flower with the 
English poets. So we accept the emblem for want of 
a better. 
POWER —Crown Imperial. So called by Shakspeare in 
the “ Winter’s Tale.” It is also, as its name suggests, 
the emblem of majesty. 
PREFERENCE— Apple-blossom. See Legend of “IIow 
the Rose became Red,” page 88. 
PURE LOVE— Pink. See “ Violet of the Valley,” 
page 44. 
PURITY OF HEART —White Water-Lily. See “Old 
Saxon Flowers,” page 68 
RECON CILIATION— Ilazel. The best waj^ for young 
lovers to make up a quarrel is to walk into a beautiful 
wood, and seat themselves upon the flowers under the 
transparent leaves of the Ilazel, for there they will 
soon become reconciled. 
REFUSAL— Snapdragon. So called from the closing lips 
of the flower, which will not open until rudely pressed. 
RE ORE I— Asphodel. A flower that in ancient times was 
planted around the graves of the dead, and which was 
supposed to grow in the gardens of Elysium. Its real 
signification is regret and sorrow for the dead. 
