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FLORAL RECORDS. 39 
Roses are ever esteemed emblems of love, 
and queens of the floral world. The Greeks 
dedicated them to the rosy-fingered goddess 
Aurora. The Romans were passionately fond 
of them. 
Cicero reproached Verres with the extra- 
vagant luxury of making the tour of Sicily 
in a bower of roses, himself decked and 
garlanded with these flowers. 
Cleopatra, studying the tastes of the 
world’s masters, is said to have spent an 
Egyptian talent, £200, for one night’s adorn- 
ment of a room with roses, thus excelling in 
extravagance those fashionable dames who 
now-a-days pay a florist £50 for an evening’s 
flowers for their ball-room. 
The Hemlock bears a fatal human interest, 
as having furnished the poison by which 
Socrates died. 
‘The Foxglove also holds a deadly poison in 
its exquisite cap-like cups. Itis a fairy plant, 
as its true name proves, ze. Folks’ glove— 
not Foxglove. By the “ Folks,’ or more 
commonly ‘ good folks,” our ancestors 










