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FLORAL RECORDS, 

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vants,” z.é. knights, devoted to the service 
of the fair Queen Margaret of Navarre, wore 
the daisy in their helmets as her badge or 
token. 
The Furze, or Golden Gorse, which decks 
our commons, and makes the desolate road- 
side gay with gold, conveyed also a sentiment 
and a truth to our simple forefathers. Modern 
flower languages have ignored it; but we 
restore it to a place amongst its kindred, and 
call it, in reference to the proverb attached to 
it, “ Love for all seasons,” for our ancestors 
were wont to say, 

‘*'That when furze was out of blossom, 
Kissing was out of fashion,” — 
z.e. that was never ; as there are always blos- 
soms somewhere on the Gorse. 
‘The Fern, which shares the waste places 
with the furze, had also an ancient meaning, 
which is in a degree retained in two of its 
modern significations of “fascination,” or 
“‘magic.” ‘The people of the Elizabethan era 
fondly believed that, if they could find and 
wear “fern seed,” they should be able to 
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