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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Rupture of a Contract, Broken Straw. Page 
183. 
Sadness, Dead Leaves. Page 232. 
Secrecy, Maiden Hair. Page 203. 
Self-love, Narcissus. Page 63. 
Separation, Carolina Jasmine. Page 161. 
Sickness, Field Anemone. In some countries 
people imagine that the flowers of the Field 
Anemone are so pernicious as to taint the air, 
and that those who breathe its emanations are 
liable to severe illness. 
Silence, White Rose. The god of silence was 
represented under the form of a young man, 
half-naked, with the fore-finger of one hand 
on his lips, and holding a White Rose in the 
other. Love was said to have given him 
this Rost;, in order to propitiate his favour. 
The ancients placed a carved Rose over the 
doors of their banqueting rooms, to caution 
their guests not to repeat anything that might 
be said there. 
Simplicity, Single Rose. Simplicity embellishes 
beauty itself, and throws a veil over deformity. 
Clemence Isaure, who instituted the Floral 
