SENTIMENT OF FLOWERS. 
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The Lady Mary Wortley Montague, is 
supposed to have first made known this east¬ 
ern custom to Europeans. When residing 
at Pera, she sent a Turkish love-letter to a 
friend in England, from which we extract 
the botanical emblems. 
Clove. You are as slender as this clove! 
You are an unblown rose ! 
I have long loved you, and you have not 
known it. 
Jonquil. Have pity on my passion ! 
Pear. Give me some hope ! 
A Rose. May you be pleased, and your sorrows 
mine! 
A Straw. Suffer me to be your slave ! 
Cinnamon. But my fortune is yours ! 
Pepper. ' Send me an answer! 
Her ladyship states that there is no flow¬ 
er without a verse belonging to it; and that 
it is possiti' to quarrel, reproach, or send 
letters of passion, friendship, or civility, or 
even of news without ever inking the fingers. 
The sentiments which in our little hand¬ 
book we have ascribed to the flowers, are 
chiefly derived from the ancients, though 
some are of a more modern adaptation. The 
ancients in assigning a flower as an emblem 
