FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
17 !) 
IMPORTUNITY OR INTRUSION. 
Common Thistle. —Car duds. 
“ Now where the thistle blows his feather’d seed. 
Which frolick zephyrs buffet in the air.” 
Falconer. 
“ Wide o’er the thistly lawn as swells the breeze, 
A whitening shower of vegetable down 
Amusive floats.” 
Thompson. 
This plant, that furnishes its seeds with 
wings by which it flies from hill to dale, too 
frequently intrudes itself into our fields, to the 
injury of the farmer’s best hopes. 
“ Tough thistles choak’d the fields, and kill’d the corn, 
And an unthrifty crop of weeds was born.” 
Dry den. 
The thistle is symbolical of Scotland, it being 
the emblematical flower of the unfortunate 
Stuarts, who so frequently wore the Cluas-cm- 
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