LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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CONSOLATION— Poppy. Denotes sleep, rest, repose : 
all of which are well represented in its drowsy 
properties and influence. 
CONSTANCY— Canterbury-bell. "Which we have already 
described. See “ Old Saxon Flowers,” pages 53-55. 
COQUETRY —Yellow Day Lily. , Called by the French 
“the Beauty of a Day;” who reigning, as she 
generally does, over so many admirers, coquettes 
with all without loving one. 
CRUELTY — Stinging Nettle. Wounds the hand that 
presses it ever so gently. Llowever dull the compre¬ 
hension of a lover might be, he could not well fail to 
understand the meaning of this plant. 
DECEITFUL CHARMS — Thorn, Apple. A gorgeous 
shrub, scarcely equaUed in beauty, although its per¬ 
fume is considered unhealthy; hence its meaning 
in floral language. 
DECLARATION OF LOVE — Tulip. So received : 
though far inferior to the Rosebud as an emblem of 
the tender passion. 
DELICACY — Bluebottle. A beautiful flower that grows 
in the corn-fields, and is second to none in the 
delicacy of its colouring. 
DESERTION— Love-lies-Bleeding. Like the Forget-me- 
Not, conveys a meaning in its very name. 
DESIRE— Jonquil, or Poet’s Narcissus. See Legend of 
the “ Queen of May,” page 120. 
DEMOTED AFFECTION — Honeysuckle, or Woodbine. 
A beautiful adaptation of a sweet wild flower to a 
poetical sentence, and called by the French the 
“ Links of Love,” from its clinging to the object it 
adorns. See “ Legend of the Flower-Spirits,” pages 
107, 108. 
DEVOTED ATTACHMENT— Heliotrope. See “Flow¬ 
ers of Thought,” page 80. 
