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quainted with the qualities of certain plants, 
and may probably lead to a more extended 
attention to the subject. 
A party walking in a garden, through the 
means of flowers presented to each other, 
may carry on a conversation of compliment, 
wit, and repartee; and you may quarrel, re- 
proach, or send letters of passion, friendship, 
civility, or even news. 
A few Rules may be necessary: J or me 
is expressed by inclining the flower to the 
left; thou or thee, by sloping it to the 
right. 
if a flower presented upright expresses a 
particular sentiment, when reversed it has a _ 
contrary meaning: Thus—a sprig of haw- | 
thorn, presented upright with its thorns and 
leaves, means, “I fear, but I hope.” Ifthe 
same sprig is returned reversed, it means, 
“you must neither hope nor fear;” but if the 
thorns be stripped off, it expresses, ‘ there 
