OCTOBER. 
IVY (Iledera helix). Friendship. 
riendship has chosen for its 
device an ivy surrounding a 
fallen tree, with the motto, 
“Nothing can detach me.” In 
Greece the hymeneal altar was 
wreathed with ivy, and a branch 
of it was presented to the bridal 
Pair, as the symbol of indissoluble union. The Bac¬ 
chantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus himself, were crowned 
with ivy. In Egypt it was consecrated to Osiris. The 
fadeless green of the ivy made it a suitable crown 
for the poet. 
“ An iy y wreath, the poet’s prize, 
Would lift Maecenas to the skies.” 
Horace, 
( 66 ) 
