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LANGUAGE OP FLOWERS. 
HOW THE EOSE BECAME EED. 
YOUR PREFERENCE WOULD BRING ME CONSOLATION . 
YOUR LOVE. A RETURN OF HAPPINESS. 
EMBLEM3. 
PREFERENCE— APPLE-BLOSSOM: CONSOLATION -POPPY: 
LOVE — ROSE: RETURN OF HAPPINESS— 
VIOLET OF THE VALLEY. 
“ Sometimes slie shakes her head, and then his hand, 
Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground: 
Sometimes her arms enfold him like a band; 
She would:—he will not in her arms be bound ; 
And when from thence he struggles to be gone. 
She locks her fingers (round him ) one in one.” 
Shakspeare’s Venus and Adonis. 
It was drawing towards the decline of a beautiful 
summer day, when the red, round sun was bending 
down a deep, blue, unclouded sky, to where a vast 
range of mountains stretched, summit upon summit, 
and in the far distance again arose, pile upon pile, 
