42 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
THE ORIGIN OF FLOWERS. 
“ When the parents of mankind 
hymned forth their grateful praises in 
the garden of Eden, I and my sisters 
were not. The Immortal Flowers that 
bloomed within that sacred enclosure 
we never saw. They are to be our 
rewards hereafter. Our immortality 
will be spent in a terrestrial paradise, 
whilst celestial glories will be the lot 
of more favoured man, when the holy 
blood of redemption shall have washed 
him sinless. 
“ The offending pair were expelled. 
The barrier sword of fire waved be¬ 
hind them, and all before was desolate, 
