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         7. 
PREFERENCE. 
Pelargonium Smithii. 
Smith's Geranium. 
            Geranium boasts 
Her crimson honours." 
PURITY OF SENTIMENT, CANDOUR, MODESTY, AND INNOCENCE. 
Viole odorata purpurea et alba. 
           Natural Order, 
           VIOLACEME. 
The sweet purple and white flowered Violets. 
                  Class and Order. 
          PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
VIOLETS from their fragrance and early appearance have received but little
less of the poets',favour 
than the Rose itself, and have been presented as emblems of many sweet and
endearing qualities; the 
white Violet, " Purity of Sentiment"-the sweet white, " Modesty"--the
sweet purple Violet, 
  Candour and Innocence." 
     Rnnin Ray.v that Anollo becominu enamoured with Ia or lanthe, one of
the nymphs of Diana, 
The Violet in her greenwood bower, 
  Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, 
May boast itself the fairest flower 
  In glen, or copse, or forest dingle." 
SnR W. SCOTT. 
     The sweet Violet is dedicated to St. Gertrude, and its motto is "
I1 faut me chercher." 
Shakespeare has made an elegant allusion to this lovely flower in his "Twelfth
Night." 
" That strain again; it had a dying fall: 
  0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, 
  That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
  Stealing and giving odour."