COURAGE. 
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COQUETRY. 
YELLOW DAY LILY. 
The flowers of this plant speedily fade, 
seldom continuing two days in bloom ; for this 
reason it has been assigned as the emblem 
of coquetry. As an equivalent for the tran¬ 
sient duration of its flowers, it displays its 
beauty by a continual succession of blossom, 
and gives out for some time a very agreeable 
odour; and this the more powerfully when 
planted in shady or moist situations. 
COURAGE. 
BLACK POPLAR. 
The poplar is by great Alcides worn. — Virgil. 
This tree is consecrated to Hercules, who, 
according to the fable of the ancients, wore 
a crown made of its foliage when he descend¬ 
ed into the infernal regions. This fable ac¬ 
counts for the different shades which the leaf 
has on either side in the following manner. 
The leaves on the side next the head of Her¬ 
cules preserved their natural colour, or, some 
say, received that dim and pallid hue from 
the moisture on his brow; while the other 
