Siitvo^uxtian. 
HE Language of Flora lias been traced by its 
students to widely different sources, each 
presenting some true claim to the title, yet 
none so entirely subverting those of others 
as to stand forth alone as its originator; for 
truly the origin of this voice of the flowers is coeval 
with their creation, and is still a tongue sufficiently 
simple and attractive to have a charm for every student 
of Nature, and to suggest appropriate emblems even 
to the illiterate rustic, who plucks the wayside daisy 
or the blue forget-me-not, to be presented to some village 
maiden as the readiest expression of his love. 
It is, in truth, no creature of modern art, but the free¬ 
born child of unsophisticated nature. “Lovely as the 
rose," “Fair as the lily,” or “Modest as the violet,” 
are 
