LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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third yellow. Shelley has immortalised the sensi¬ 
tive plant in one of his most beautiful poems. 
TIES OF LOVE — Tendrils of Climbing Plants. Called 
by the French, in floral language, “ The Chains of 
Love.” 
TRUTH —The Wild Hyacinth, or Bluebell of Spring. The 
universal favourite of both old and young, that lights 
up the dark recesses of the forest, and looks as if a 
blue cloud had fallen from the face of heaven, and was 
sleeping there. It is the earliest spring flower that 
hears old England’s favourite colour of “ true blue.” 
UNCONSCIOUS BEAUTY — Mignionette. A flower 
whose sweetness all have inhaled. It is linked to 
a long sentence in the Language of Flowers, and 
made to express “ Your qualities surpass your 
charms.” But I have preferred making this little 
darling the emblem of Unconscious Beauty, as 
equally expressive in the sense, and more emblem¬ 
atical of so sweet and lowly a flower. 
UNITED — Lancaster Bose. Associated with history, 
and the union that took place between the rival 
houses of York and Lancaster, after the peace of 
England had so long been broken by their wars. 
YOUR LOOKS FREEZE ME — Ice-plant. A most 
expressive emblem. 
YOUTHFUL HOPE — Snoivdrop. In distinction to the 
Hawthorn, which is the old emblem of Hope, I have 
associated the Snowdrop with Youth, as it is the 
first flower which blows upon the edge of winter. 
YOUTHFULNESS— Crocus . Endeared to us as one of 
the first flowers that breaks through the prison- 
house of winter, throwing a golden light upon our 
garden borders like the earliest sunshine of spring. 
It is well chosen as the emblem of Youth. 
