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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Have I caught you at last? Venus’s 
Flytrap. 
Healing; A Cure: Balm of Gilead. 
Health: Iceland Moss. 
Heartless Beauty: Dahlia. 
Honesty: Honesty. 
Hope: Hawthorn. 
Horror: Serpentine Cactus. 
Hospitality: Oak. 
How came you here ? Walking- 
Leaf. 
Humanity : Marshmallow. 
Humility: Broom. 
Hypocrisy: Ebony. 
I. 
I am not changed—they wrong me: 
Fairy’s Glove, or Foxglove. 
I attach myself to you: Scarlet 
Ipomcea, or Indian Jasmine. 
I burn : Common Cactus. 
I change but in dying : Bay-Leaf. 
I declare against you: Belvidere. 
Idleness: Fig Marigold. 
I feel your kindness : Flax. 
Ill-nature: Crab-blossom.* 
Imagination: Aloe. 
Immortality: Amaranth. 
Impatience: Balsam. 
Impatience of Absence : Corchorus. 
Imperfection: Henbane. 
Importunity: Common Thistle; 
Burdock. 
Inconstancy: Evening Primrose. 
Incorruptible: Cedar of Lebanon. 
Independence : White Oak ; Wild 
Plum-Blossom. 
Indifference: Candy-Tuft. 
Indiscretion, Heedlessness: Al- j 
mond-Tree. 
Infidelity: Yellow Rose. 
Ingenuous Simplicity: Mouse-Ear 
Chickweed. 
Ingratitude: Yellow Gentian; But¬ 
tercups. 
Injustice : Hops. 
Insinuation : Bindweed. 
Innocence: Daisy. 
Inspiration: Angelica. 
Instruction: Bay-Berry. 
Intellect: Walnut. 
Intoxication: Vine. 
I partake your Sentiments: Gar¬ 
den Daisy. 
Irony: Sardony. 
I surmount all Difficulties: Mistle¬ 
toe. 
I trust in thee: Peruvian Helio¬ 
trope. 
I will enlighten you: Wax-Myrtle. 
I will not survive you: Black-Mul¬ 
berry-Tree. 
I will not trouble you: A Rose-leaf. 
I will think of it: White Daisy. 
I with the Morning’s Love have oft 
made Sport: Bachelor’s Button. 
I wish I were rich: King-Cup. 
J. 
Jealousy: French Marigold. 
Jest or bantering : Southern-Wood. 
Joy: Wood-Sorrel. 
Justice: Rudbeckia. 
Justice shall be done you: Colts¬ 
foot. 
K. 
Keep your Promises : Plum-Tree. 
Knight-Errantry: Monk’s Hood. 
L. . 
Lamentation: Aspen-Tree. 
