FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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HEEDLESSNESS. 
Almon d. — Amygdalus. 
“ Like to an almond-tree, mounted high 
On top of green Selenis, all alone. 
With blossoms brave bedecked daintily ; 
Whose tender locks do tremble every one. 
At every little breath that under heav’n is blown.” 
Fairy Queen. 
The blushing petals which bedeck the leaf¬ 
less branches of these trees that ot old embel¬ 
lished the banks of the Jordan, are made 
emblematical of heedlessness, from their ven¬ 
turing forth before nature has prepared the 
foliage for their protection. 
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“ Mark well the flow’ring almonds in the wood : 
If od’rous blossoms the bearing branches load, 
The glebe will answer to the sylvan reign. 
Great heats will follow, and large crops of grain.” 
Dry den . 
