ORA NGE-BL OS SOM. 
(Your purity equals your loveliness.) 
RANGE-BLOSSOM is generally deemed typical 
of chastity. The practice of brides wearing a 
wreath of it on their wedding-day, though still 
retained in some countries, is not so fashionable here as 
formerly. 
In his “Ode to Memory,” Tennyson alludes to the 
custom of using these blossoms at nuptials thus : 
“ Like a bird of old 
In triumph led. 
With music and sweet showers 
Of festal flowers, 
Unto the dwelling she must sway.” 
THE ORANGE-BLOSSOM. 
Just then, beneath some orange-trees, 
Whose fruit and blossoms in the breeze 
Were wantoning together, free, 
Like age at play with infancy. 
