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SENTIMENT OP FLOWERS. 7 
with flowers. There the eye dwells with 
delight on the most beautiful garlands, and 
the attendants, who are numerous, are/~f^ 
ornamented with the rarest flowers. The'" pi 
1 streets are strewed with them; choristers 
carry baskets full of roses and yellow 
broom, which they throw at intervals p 
before the sacred altars. Ladies, too, 
who join the procession, bear baskets 
of flowers, which they offer to the saints. 
The sweet scents of the rose, cassia, 
jessamine, orange, and tuberose, mingle 
with the odour of the burning incense, 
and almost overpower the senses.” 
And we have May day, though now, 
alas ! the festivities of that day are be¬ 
comingless universally celebrated. Either 
the inhabitants of once “ merrie England” 
are less light hearted than in days of yore, 
or there is less sociality among us ; and 
Jh, 
