TUB WHITE LILAC. 
Botanical Name, Syringa vulgaris „— Class, Diandria. 
—Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, white, and very fra¬ 
grant .—Native place, Persia. 
Sentiment. 
YOUTHFUL INNOCENCE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
This beautiful shrub is an apt emblem of 
youthful innocence; the flexibility of its 
branches and the freshness of its verdure re¬ 
present the flexibility and the freshness of 
youth; while the white flower speaks of the 
innocence of youth, unspotted by contact 
with the world; but one more similarity 
still remains—the evanescence of its beauty 
tells us of the short duration of the purity of 
