. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE CLOVE TREE. THE CLOVE TREE {Caryophyllus aromaticus).—DIGNITY. The Aromatic Clove Tree is a native of the Moluccas. It was brought into England in 1797, and there are specimens in English gardens. It requires a moist or bark stove for its cultivation. The fruit, which is well known to us from its use as a culinary spice, somewhat resembles a naiJ, where- fore it is called Clous de Giroflier, by our French neighbours. There are divers preparations from it sold by our druggists, which hav
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE CLOVE TREE. THE CLOVE TREE {Caryophyllus aromaticus).—DIGNITY. The Aromatic Clove Tree is a native of the Moluccas. It was brought into England in 1797, and there are specimens in English gardens. It requires a moist or bark stove for its cultivation. The fruit, which is well known to us from its use as a culinary spice, somewhat resembles a naiJ, where- fore it is called Clous de Giroflier, by our French neighbours. There are divers preparations from it sold by our druggists, which have the property of mitigating some of the many pains which we have to bear. The inhabitants of the Molucca islands are said to use cloves as marks of distinction. They distinguish their native notabilities by speaking of them respectively as having one, two, three, or four cloves, just as we speak of the titles of our aristoci-acy, the recapitu- lation of which at the funeral of men of renown, occupies considerable time. In the absence of this tree, its flowers and its fruit, from our gardens, the Clove Pink, whose fragrance puts us in mind of the spice, may be well sub- stituted as the emblem of Dignity. THE COLUMBINE {Aquilegia vulagris)..—Yo\Ay. This curious flower is not rare in a wild state in woods, plantations, and hedgerows. It is cultivated as a border- flower, when it frequently becomes double, and its colour varies from dark purple to crimson, pink, and white. It IS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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