OK, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS 
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Flowers. Meanings. 
Bridal Bose .Happy Love 
Broom .Humility, Neatness 
Buckbean.Calm, Repose 
Bud of White Bose A heart ignorant of 
love 
Bugloss .Falsehood 
Bulrush .Docility, Humility, 
Indiscretion 
Burdock.Importunity, Touch 
me not 
Buttercup, or King- Ingratitude, Child- 
cup . ishness 
Butterfly Orchis ...Gaiety 
Butterfly Weed ...Let me go 
Bachelor's Buttons denote Single Blessedness; 
but not one person out of a hundred admires it. It 
is a doleful and melancholly state; for how can 
(Balm) sympathy exist, or (Gentle Balm) plea¬ 
santry , be realized, where there is only one person 
to make a family ? It is only conjugal hands and 
tongues which can (Balm of Gilead) give relief 
and cure our aching hearts when in distress. How 
effectually they can console and aid us, and gently 
restrain our (Yelloiv Balsam) impatience ! 
The old maid (Red Balsam) vociferates, if a 
lover comes near, Touch, me not; while the old 
