FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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Shakspeare thus alludes to the practice. 
“ A woman’s tongue. 
That gives not half so great a blow to th' ear. 
As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire.” 
RESEMBLANCE. 
Spiked Speedwell. — Veronica Spicala. 
“ Fairest resemblance of thy maker fair. 
Thee all things living gaze on.” 
Milton. 
This beautiful little blue flower, familiarly 
known by the name of bird’s eye, is made the 
emblem of resemblance. 
In the flowers of the saints this plant is 
dedicated to St. Barbatus. 
