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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
ARCHITECTURE. 
Candy-tuft .— Iberis . 
“ Our father’s next, in architecture skill'd 
Cities for use, and forts for safety build : 
Then palaces and lofty domes arose ; 
These for devotion, and for pleasure those.” 
Blackmore. 
This little plant has been made the emblem 
ol architecture, because its flowers are disposed 
in stories from the bottom of the stalk to the 
top, producing- a resemblance to the open co¬ 
lumns of one of the most delicate orders of ar¬ 
chitecture. 
