THE LANGUAGE OF FLO WEES. 
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There are many species of amaranth. That which is 
called coxcomb (a corruption of cock’s comb ) is very 
handsome, and is said to grow to a great size in Japan. 
Another variety is popularly called Love-lies-bleeding. 
In Campbell’s poem of “ O’Connor’s Child,” he makes 
the heroine say, — 
“ This purple flower my tears have nursed 
A hero’s blood supplied its bloom: 
I love it, for it was the first 
That grew on Counocht Moran’s tomb.” 
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“ Nor would I change my buried love 
For any heart of living mould. 
No, for I am a hero’s child — 
I’ll hunt my quarry on the wild, 
And still my home this mansion make, 
Of all unheeded and unheeding, 
And cherish, for my warrior’s sake, 
The flower of love-lies-bleeding.” 
PARSLEY (Apium petroselinum ). Festivity. 
Parsley was in great repute among the Greeks. At 
banquets they crowned themselves with it, to excite 
gayety and appetite. In the Nemean games the victor 
received for prize a wreath of parsley. It was sup¬ 
posed to be a native of Sardinia, because on old medals 
that province was represented by a woman at whose side 
is a vase of parsley; but it is found in cool, shady 
places throughout the south of Europe. The beautiful 
verdure of this plant heightens the elegance of the dishes 
it adorns. 
