FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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FIDELITY IN MISFORTUNE. 
Wall-flower. — Cheiranthus Cheiri. 
“ The rude stone fence, with fragrant wall-flow’rs gay. 
To me more pleasure yield. 
Than all the pomp imperial domes display.” 
Scott. 
The wall-flower is made the emblem of 
fidelity in misfortune, because it attaches it¬ 
self to the desolate, and enlivens the ruins 
which time and neglect would otherwise ren¬ 
der terrible. It hides the savage strokes of 
feudal times on the castle walls ; fills the space 
of the wanted stone in the mouldering church, 
and wreathes a garland on the crumbling mo¬ 
nument, where grateful memory no longer 
lingers. 
“For this, obedient zephyrs bear 
Her light seeds round yon turret’s mould ; 
And, undispers’d by tempest there. 
They rise in vegetable gold.” 
Lang horn. 
