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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
INDIFFERENCE. 
Ever-flowering Candy-tuft. —Iberis semperflorens. 
In the floral language of Persia, this plant 
is made the emblem of indifference, because 
it blossoms alike through the heat of the sum¬ 
mer months, and the severity of the winter’s 
frost, equally disregarding the rays of Sol, 
and the breath of Boreas. 
“ Indiff’rence, clad in wisdom’s guise, 
All fortitude of mind supplies ; 
For, how can stony bowels melt 
In those who never pity felt?” 
Swift. 
