FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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ASSIDUITY. 
Lavender. — Lavendula Spica. 
“ And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom 
Shall be erewhile in arid bundles bound. 
To lurk amidst her labours of the loom. 
And crown her kerchiefs clean with mickle rare perfume.” 
Shenstone. 
In the floral emblems of the Turks this 
agreeable plant represents assiduity ; but the 
continental emblematists make it symbolical 
of mistrust and disunion, because it is fre¬ 
quently used to cover disagreeable odours. 
Mistrust can only belong justly to such as 
are accustomed to cheat and deceive, and 
those need no greater curse for their misdeeds. 
