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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
The melancholy signification of the Marigold 
may be modified in a thousand ways. Combined 
with roses, the symbol expresses the bitter 
sweets and pleasant pains of love. Alone it 
expresses grief; interwoven with other flowers, 
the varying events of life, the “ mingled yarn 
of good and ill together.” In the East, a bou¬ 
quet of Marigolds and poppies expresses this 
thought—“ I will allay your pain.” It is more 
especially by such modifications that the Lan¬ 
guage of Flowers becomes the interpretation of 
our thoughts. Marguerite of Orleans, the ma¬ 
ternal grandmother of Henry IV., chose for her 
armorial device a Marigold turning towards the 
sun, and for motto, “ Je ne veux suivre que lui 
seul." By this device the virtuous princess con¬ 
veyed the idea that all her thoughts and affec¬ 
tions turned towards heaven, as the Marigold 
towards the sun. 
One of our older poets thus moralizes over 
this flower:— 
When, with a serious musing, I behold 
The grateful and obsequious Marigold, 
How duly, every morning, she displays 
Her open breast when Phoebus spreads his rays ; 
