POETICAL LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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universal favorite of both old and young, that lights 
up the dark recesses of the forest, and looks as if a 
blue cloud had fallen from the face of heaven, and was 
sleeping there. It is the earliest spring flower, that 
bears old England’s favorite color of “ true blue.” 
UNCONSCIOUS BEAUTY — Mignionette. A flower 
whose sweetness all have inhaled. It is linked to a 
long sentence in the Language of Flowers, and made 
to express, “ Your qualities surpass your charms.” 
But I have preferred making this little darling the 
emblem of Unconscious Beauty, as equally expiessive 
in the sense, and more emblematical of so sweet and 
lowly a flower. 
UNITED— -Lancaster Rose. Associated with history, and 
the union that took place between the rival houses of 
York and Lancaster, after the peace of England had 
so long been broken by their wars. 
YOUR LOOKS FREEZE ME —Ice-Plant. A most 
expressive emblem. 
YOUTHFUL HOPE— Snowdrop. In distinction to the 
Hawthorn, which is the old emblem of Hope, I have 
associated the Snowdrop with Youth, as it is the first 
flower which blows upon the edge of winter. 
YOUTHFULNESS— Crocus. Endeared to us as one of 
the first flowers that breaks through the prison-house 
of winter, throwing a golden light upon our garden 
borders like the earliest sunshine of spring. It is well 
chosen as the emblem of Youth. 
