Typical Bouquets. 
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the character of the messages intended to be conveyed ; upon 
the variety of the flowers obtainable ; and upon the ingenuity 
of the sender—the following few simple examples of floral 
epistles may not prove unacceptable: 
Example Bouquets. 
I —May Maternal Love protect your Youth in Innocence and Joy. 
Moss 
Bearded Crepis, or 
Juniper 
Emblems required: 
Maternal love. Primroses 
Daisy 
Protection. Wood Sorrel 
Youth. 
Innocence. 
Joy. 
II. — Your Friendliness bids me hope to obtain your Love. 
Emblems required: 
Ivy or Acacia, Friendship. Snowdrop or Hawthorn, Hope. Myrtle or Rose, Love. 
III. —Let the Bonds of Marriage unite us. 
Emblems required: 
Blue Convolvulus, Bonds. Linden-leaf or Yellow Ivy, Matrimony. A few Straws, Union. 
IV. —Keep your Promise to meet me to-night. Do not Forget. 
Emblems required: 
Plum-blossom . . Keep your promise. I Convolvulus . . . Night. 
Sweet Pea . . A meeting. \ Forget-me-not . . . Do not forget. 
V. 
A Red Rose, / love you. 
VI.— By Foresight you will surmount your Difficulties. 
Emblems required: 
Holly, Foresight. Mistletoe, You will surmount your difficulties. 
VII. — To Love is a Pleasure, a Happiness, which intoxicates ; to cease to Love is 
ceasing to exist; it is to have bought this sad Truth: that Innocence 
is Falsehood, Love an Art, and Happiness a Dream. 
Pink 
Wood Sorrel or Ivy 
Sweet Sultan. 
Vine-leaf 
Pink, reversed 
Lucern, reversed . 
Wheat-ear . . 
A dead leaf . . 
Emblems required: 
Pure love. 
Joy. 
Happiness. 
Intoxication. 
Cessation of love. 
Cessation of life. 
A purchase. 
Sadness. 
Nightshade 
Daisy 
Bugloss . 
Myrtle . 
Acanthus . 
Sweet Sultan 
Poppy . 
Truth. 
Innocence. 
Falsehood. 
Love. 
An art. 
Happiness. 
Sleep. 
