LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
CONSOLATION — Poppy. Denotes sleep, rest, repose: 
all of which are well represented in its drowsy 
properties and influence. 
CONSTANCY— Canterbury-bell. Which we have already 
described. See “ Old Saxon Flowers,” pages 53-55. 
COQUETRY— Yellow Pay Lily. Called by the French 
“ the Beauty of a Day; ” who reigning, as she 
generally does, over so many admirers, coquettes 
with all without loving one. 
CRUELTY— Stinging Nettle. Wounds the hand that 
presses it ever so gently. However dull the compre¬ 
hension of a lover might he, he could not well fail to 
understand the meaning of this plant. 
DECEITFUL CHARMS — Thorn Apple. A gorgeous 
shrub, scarcely equalled in beauty, although its per¬ 
fume is considered unhealthy; hence its meaning 
in floral language. 
DECLARATION OF LOVE — Tulip. So received: 
though far inferior to the Rosebud as an emblem of 
the tender passion. 
DELICACY— Bluebottle. A beautiful flower that grows 
in the corn-fields, and is second to none in the 
delicacy of its colouring. 
DESERTION— Love-lies-Bleeding. Like the Forget-me- 
Not, conveys a meaning in its very name. 
DESIRE— Jonquil, or Poet’s Narcissus. See Legend of 
the “ Queen of May,” page 126. 
DEVOTED AFFECTION — Honeysuckle or Woodbine. 
A beautiful adaptation of a sweet wild flower to a 
poetical sentence, and called by the French the 
“ Links of Love,” from its clinging to the object it 
adorns. See “ Legend of the Flower-Spirits,” pages 
107, 108. 
DEVOTED ATTACHMENT— Heliotrope. See “Flow¬ 
ers of Thought,” page 80. 
