FLORAL EMBLEMS 
99 
Juice, that creeping through the heart. 
Deadens every sense of smart.” 
Mrs. M. Robinson. 
Fertility was hieroglyphically described by 
Venus, with a head of poppy in her hand. 
CONSTANCY. 
Blue Pyramidal Bell Flower. 
Campanula pyromidalis. 
“ There thou shalt cull me simples, and shall teach 
Thy friend the name and healing pow’rs of each. 
From the tall blue-bell to the dwarfish weed. 
What the dryland, and what the marshes breed.” 
Milton. 
The blue campanula is made emblematical 
of constancy on account of its colour. South 
describes constancy as a stability and firmness 
of friendship, which overlooks and passes by 
lesser failures of kindness, and yet still retains 
the same habitual goodwill to a friend. 
