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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
ELOQUENCE. 
Iris or Flag-flower.— Iris. 
“ Iris, on safiron wings array’d with dew 
Of various colours, through the sun-beams flew.” 
The ancients represented eloquence by the 
species of this flower which grows in the waters, 
whose various colours harmonize as delight¬ 
fully to the eye as fine oratory does to the ear. 
Our immortal bard observes that the eyes of 
the ignorant are more learned than their ears. 
EMBARRASSMENT. 
Love in a puzzle. — Ni^ella Damascena. 
O 
These pretty flowers being seated in a che- 
vaux-de-frise of liner foliage, has induced 
