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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
PINK. 
PURE LOVE. 
The primitive Pink is simple red or white, 
and scented; by cultivation, the petals have 
been enlarged and multiplied, and its colour in¬ 
finitely varied, from the darkest purple to the 
purest white, with all the hues of red, from the 
rich crimson to the pale rose, with which yellow 
is also frequently blended. In some of these 
flowers we see the eye of the pheasant painted ; 
while others are exquisitely marbled, striped, 
and figured. In some varieties two opposite 
colours are abruptly diversified, while in others 
they seem mingled and softened off in shades. 
Under all its diversities, however, it retains its 
delicious, spicy fragrance, and hence has been 
made the emblem of woman’s love, which no 
circumstances can change :— 
Alas ! the love of woman ! it is known 
To be a lovely and a fearful thing; 
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, 
And if ’tis lost, life has no more to bring 
To them hut mockeries of the past alone. 
Byron. 
