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INTRODUCTION. 
expresses more powerfully a desire for good 
neighbourhood, than all the words of village 
dialect. 
But to express ourselves more readily by 
floral emblems, it is necessary that we should 
lay down grammatical rules for the govern¬ 
ment of this silent language before we pro¬ 
ceed to the dictionary of emblems. 
The first principle is to observe that the 
pronoun 7, or me, is expressed by inclining 
the flower to the left, and the pronoun thou, 
or thee, by sloping it to the right, but when 
represented by drawings on paper, these po¬ 
sitions should be reversed, as the flower should 
lean to the heart of the person whom it is to 
signify. 
The articles a, cm, and the, may be ex¬ 
pressed by a tendril, the first by a single line, 
thus — Q .—-, the second by a double ten¬ 
dril - and the third by one with 
three branches . 
