LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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Promptness, Stock Gillyflower. 
Prosperity, Beech. 
Gilbert White calls the beech “ the most lovely of all forest 
trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy 
foliage, or graceful, pendulous boughs.” Old Evelyn says, 
“They make spreading trees, and noble shades with their 
well-furnished and glistering leaves.” And Miller writes, 
“ Not that the color of the oak is be compared to the rich 
orange hue of the beech, which is, beyond question, the most 
beautiful of all autumnal colors to an eye that loves a deep 
blaze.” In the olden times, beds, light and fragrant, were 
made from beech leaves. The oil from beech nuts is said to 
be but little inferior to olive oil. 
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Prnclence, Service Tree. Lemon. Seep. 77. 
The lemon tree is proverbial for its fertility. In 1S12, a wager 
was laid between a gentleman of Massa and the Marchese 
Calani of Spezzia, that a lemon tree at Cresullo, half a mile 
from Massa, would produce fourteen thousand lemons. It 
exceeded that number. 
Pure and deep love, Carnation. See p. 49. 
Pure love, Red Pink. 
Purity, Star of Bethlehem. White Violet. White Lily. See p. 53. 
