264 FLORAL DICTIONARY. 
Tree of Life : Old Age. 
Tuft of Moss : Maternal Love. 
Tulip: Declaration of Love. 
Turnip: Charity. 
V. 
Valerian (Red) : Accommodating 
Disposition. 
Various-coloured Lantana: Rigour. 
Verbena: Sensibility. 
Vernal Grass: Poor but happy. 
Vervain: Enchantment. 
Venus’s Car: Fly with me. 
Venus’s Flytrap: Have I caught 
you at last. 
Venus’s Looking-Glass : Flattery. 
Vine: Intoxication. 
Violet: Modesty. 
Virgin’s Bower: Artifice. 
Virginian Spiderwort: Momentary 
Happiness. 
Volkamenica Japonica: May you 
be happy. 
W. 
.Wall-Flower: Fidelity in Adversi- 
% ty. 
Wall-Speedwell: Fidelity. 
Water-Lily: Eloquence. 
Walnut: Intellect. 
Walking-Leaf: How came you 
here? 
Watermelon: Bulkiness. 
Water-Star : Beauty combined with 
Piety. 
Wax-Plant: Susceptibility. 
Wax-Myrtle: I will enlighten you. 
Weeping-Willow: Melancholy. 
.Wheat: Riches. 
White Jasmine: Amiableness. 
White Lilac: Youth. 
White Lily: Purity and Modesty.- 
White Mullein : Good Nature. 
White Oak: Independence. 
White Pink: Talent. 
White Poplar: Time. 
White Poppy: Sleep of the Heart. 
White Rose: Silence. 
White Rose (Dried) : Death prefer¬ 
able to Loss of Innocence. 
White Rosebud: The Heart that 
knows not Love. 
White Violet: Candour. 
Wild or Dog Rose: Simplicity. 
Willow: Forsaken. 
Willow-Herb: Pretension. 
Winter-Cherry: Deception. 
Witch-Hazel: A Spell. 
Wood-Sorrel: Joy. 
Wormwood: Absence. 
Y. 
Yarrow : War. •. 
Yellow Carnation: Disdain. 
Yellow Day-Lily : Coquetry. 
Yellow Gentian: Ingratitude. 
Yellow Iris : Flame. 
Yellow Rose: Infidelity. 
Yew: Sorrow. 
Z. 
Zinnia: Absence. 
