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BOUQUET No. 8. 
BOUQUET FOR AUGUST, COMPOSED OF OATS — PASSION FLOWER - LOVE LIES 
BLEEDING — CYPRESS VINE — COLUMBINE — VERBENA -AMARANTH — 
PERIWINKLE-ALTHEA FRUTEX. 
Significations :— Witching Charm of Music — Religious Superstition Disappointment — 
Hopeless Love — Mourning — Folly of delay — Sensibility — Forever thine — 
Sweet remembrances — Persuasion. 
We read of ‘ the Loves of the Flowers ’ — Why not the Love 
of the Seasons ? 
THE COURTSHIP OF AUTUMN AND SUMMER. 
AUTUMN. 
‘ Summer ! Sweet Summer, thy birds and flowers, 
Have gladdened the earth and sky; 
Thy breezes have sought the invalid’s bowers, 
And cheered the drooping eye! 
