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INDEX OP THE 
the capital of the Corinthian column, as he saw it 
growing over the grave of a young maiden. 
ASSIGNATION— Pimpernel. Its regularity in opening 
and shutting is well selected as denoting an appoint¬ 
ment between lovers, who are supposed to trust more 
to the bright sunshine and sweet flowers, and the 
feelings of their own hearts, than the measured 
minutes of Time. It also denotes change in the 
weather, as the flowers always close before rain. By 
country people it is called the Shepherd’s Weather¬ 
glass. 
BASHFULNESS— The Maiden's Blush Rose. One of 
the most beautiful and delicate of all the queenly 
class of roses. 
BEAUTY— The Rose. Its very name is beautiful: and 
more than two thousand years ago it was worshipped 
by the poets, and called the Queen of Flowers. 
BELIEF — Passion Flower. Has become strangely 
woven with our faitlr, from a fancied resemblance 
to a cross and a crown, although it requires a great 
effort of the imagination to call up either the one or 
the other. Still its very name, in some measure, 
renders it sacred to Faith and Belief, 
CANDOUR— White Violet. See “ Legend of the Flower- 
Spirits,” page 110. 
CHASTITY— Orange Blossom. These flowers are com¬ 
monly worn now by the young bride; though we 
know not why the Orange-blossom was selected, as 
the emblem of Chastity. The custom of wearing it 
at weddings, we believe, first originated in France 
CONFESSION— Moss-rosebud. A beautiful and poetical 
representation of the first confession of love, and so 
alluded to by our old poets; Rosebuds having for 
ages been emblems of youthful love. 
