
10 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
leaves, which were the emblem of her con- 
stant and death-daring purity.. Anemonies 
were but drops of dead Adonis’s blood. 
Rhododendron was the wicked nymph whose 
kiss was death. Narcissus still gazed upon 
his delicate beauty in the brook, when he 
had become a floweret ; and so on: every 
flower had its story. 
Tt is also said that the Greeks understood 
the art of sending intelligence by a bouquet, 
and it is evident, from the old Dream- book 
of Artemidorus, that every flower of which 
their garlands were composed had a parti- 
cular signification’: But we have no certain 
knowledge of their flower- ions e7e°: 
Amongst the chivalrous nations of the 
North, flowers obtained a grander and bolder 
significance. Nations assumed for their 
padges on many a hardly-contested field, 
he tender darlings of the spring and 
summer ; and thus. they became ent éwined 
with the records of the world, and linked 
with the memory of heroes. 
The lowly Broom, worn on the knightly: 
helmet of ns of Anjou, gave name to 
the race of kings he sent to our island 
throne, the great . Plantagenets. 

