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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Rupture of a Contract, Broken Straw. 
Page 177. 
Sadness, Dead Leaves. Page 226. 
Secrecy, Maiden Hair. Page 197. 
Self-loye, Narcissus. Page 55. 
Separation, Carolina Jasmine. Page 155. 
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 Rose, 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 embel¬ 
lishes beauty itself, and throws a veil over 
deformity. Clemence Isaure, who instituted 
