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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
to admire the skill and ingenuity displayed 
in the works of the Creator. 
Ingratitude, Buttercup. This plant is the 
most mischievous of any in our meadows : 
cultivation makes its bad qualities worse. It 
flower from May to August. 
Injustice, Hop. The Hop is made the emblem 
of injustice, because its climbing tendrils 
stifle the trees and plants which they entwine 
in their. embrace; and the prodigious vege¬ 
tation of the whole plant speedily exhausts 
the soil upon which it grows. 
Innocence, Daisy. Page 51. 
Inspiration, Angelica. This beautiful plant, 
which grows in the northernmost countries, 
is employed to crown the Lapland poets, who 
fancy themselves inspired by its odour. 
Intoxication, Vine. Anacharsis said that the 
Vine produces three kinds of fruit, intoxi¬ 
cation, debauchery, and repentance; and 
that he who is temperate in speech, in diet, 
and in amusement, must be an excellent 
man. 
Irony, Sardonia. This plant has some resem¬ 
blance to parsley. It contains a poison, which 
