FLORAL DICTIONARY. 
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A. 
A Belle: Orchis. 
Absence: Wormwood, Zinnia. 
Accommodating Disposition: Red 
Valerian. * 
Activity: Thyme. 
Afterthought: Catesby’s Starwort. 
Agitation: Moving Plant. 
Amiability: Jessamine, or Jasmine. 
An appointed Meeting : Pea. 
Ardour: Cuckoo-Plant; Arum, or 
Wake-Robin. 
Argument: Fig. 
Art: Bear’s-Breach. 
Artifice : Virgin’s Bower: Climatis. 
A spell: Witch-Hazel. 
Assiduity: Lavender. 
Assignation: Pimpernel. 
Attachment: Scarlet-flowered Ipo- 
moea. 
Austerity: Fullers’ Teasel; This¬ 
tle. 
Aversion: China or Indian Pink. 
B. 
Baseness: Dodder. 
Bashful Shame: Peony. 
Beauty: Rose. 
Beauty combined with Piety: Wa¬ 
ter-Star. 
Beauty ever new : China or Month¬ 
ly Rose. 
Beauty is your only Attraction : 
Japan Rose. 
Beneficence: Potato. - 
Benevolence: Calycanthus. 
Beware: Oleander. 
Beware of the Coquette: Catalpa- 
Tree. 
Birth: Dittany. 
Bluntness of Manners: Borage. 
Blushes: Marjoram. 
Boaster: Hydranger. 
Boldness: Larch. 
Bond of Love: Honeysuckle. 
Bulkiness: Watermelon. 
Bury me amid Nature’s Beauties: 
Persimon. 
Busybody: Quamoclet. 
C. 
Calumny: Hellebore, Madder. 
Candour aud Innocence: Sweet 
White Violet. 
Capricious Beauty: Musk-Rose. 
Celibacy: Rosebay Willow-Herb. 
Charity: Wild Grape, Turnip. 
Chastity: Orange-Flower. 
Cheerfulness: Crocus. 
Cheerfulness in Adversity: Chinese 
Chrysanthemum; Gorse. 
Coldhearted: Lettuce. 
Coldness; To live without Love: 
Agnus Castus. 
Come down to me: Jacob’s Ladder. 
Complaisance: Common Reed. 
Concealed Merit: Coriander. 
Confidence: Hepatica, Polyanthus. 
Confidence in Heaven: Flowering 
Reed. 
Conjugal Love: Lime or Linden 
Tree. 
Consolation: Snowdrop. 
Consolation of Sleep: Poppy. 
Constancy: Canterbury Blue-Bell. 
Content: Houstonia. 
Coquetry: Yellow Day-Lily. 
Counterfeit: Mock Orange. 
Courage: Black Poplar. 
Craftiness: Sweet-William. 
Crime: Tamarisk. 
Critic: Squirting Cucumber. 
Cruelty: Nettle. 
Cure (A) : Balm. 
Cure for the Heartache: Asclepias. 
D. 
Danger: Rhododendron. 
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