FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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Some suppose it to be on account of its form¬ 
erly being so frequently planted in the front 
of houses to shade happy couples from the 
noon-tide sun. 
A botanical wag observed that each bunch 
of flowers had but one tongue between them.* 
“ He mark’d the conjugal dispute ; 
Nell roar’d incessant, Dick sat mute.” 
Swift. 
CONSOLATION. 
Snow-drop .—Galanthus nivalis. 
A flow’r that first in this sweet garden smil’d. 
To virgins sacred, and the snow-drop styl’d.” 
Tickell. 
The snow-drop is the first flower that awakes 
from the repose of winter, and cheers us with 
* The flour-stalk springs from, and is attached to a 
whitish, tongue-shaped leaf, widely different both in colour 
and shape to the foliage of the tree. 
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