50 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
It has a scent, as though Love for its dower 
Had on it all his odorous arrows tost; 
For, though the rose has more perfuming power. 
The Violet (haply ’cause ’tis almost lost. 
And takes us so much trouble to discover) 
Stands first with most, but always with a lover. 
Barry Cornwall. 
At the Floral Games instituted at Toulouse in the 
early part of the fourteenth century, in the time of 
the Troubadours, the prize awarded to the author of 
the best poetical composition consisted of a golden 
Violet, to which several other prizes were afterwards 
added by Clemence Isaure. This festival, inter¬ 
rupted by the Kevolution, was revived in 1806, 
and is still held annually in the town-house of 
Toulouse. 
