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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
DECEPTION. 
Winter Cherry.— Physalis Alkekdifei. 
We present this berry as the emblem of 
deception, since it assumes all the beauty of 
the cherry, in shape, gloss, and colouring. 
One of Shakspeare’s songs says, 
“ Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; 
Men were deceivers ever : 
One foot in sea, and one on shore ; 
To one thing constant never.” 
DECLARATION OF LOVE. 
Tulip.— Tu lipa . 
“ Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays 
Her idle freaks.” 
Thompson. 
“ There’s fairy tulips in the east. 
The garden of the sun ; 
The very streams reflect the hues. 
And blossom as they run.” 
Wiffen. 
The tulip has from time immemorial been 
