. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE ALOE. and thus, pale and blanched at eventide, may be seen a group of profusely blooming trees. On the ensuing morning, as if refreshed by the freezing air of night, the bloom appears in rich rosy garb, and retains this new adornment,—though it may be in fact the decoration of death,—for a month or more, and it falls only when the trees are fully clad with leafy verdure. THE ALOE.—Bitterness, Grief. De Vaillant found very many species of the Aloe in the deserts of Namaquois. Some of the
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. THE ALOE. and thus, pale and blanched at eventide, may be seen a group of profusely blooming trees. On the ensuing morning, as if refreshed by the freezing air of night, the bloom appears in rich rosy garb, and retains this new adornment,—though it may be in fact the decoration of death,—for a month or more, and it falls only when the trees are fully clad with leafy verdure. THE ALOE.—Bitterness, Grief. De Vaillant found very many species of the Aloe in the deserts of Namaquois. Some of these had leaves six feet long, closely packed and armed with a long spine; from the midst of the leaves there rises a stem to the height of a tree, adorned with flowers throughout. Others grow like the Cactus, bristling with spines ; while some, again, are spotted, and have the appearance of serpents creeping upon the earth. Brydone says that the city of Syracuse was, as it were, covered with large Aloes in bloom ; their beautiful and elegant stems giving to the headland above the beach the semblance of an enchanted woodland. The Aloe is an extensive genus of exotics, comprising trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. The collection at the Museum de Paris is said to be the finest in the world. The Aloe thrives well with us, but chiefly, if not entirely, as a denizen of the greenhouse. These magnificent, not to say monstrous, members of the vegetable kingdom, are for the most part natives of barbarous Africa. There they flourish among rocks, in arid sands, in the glowing atmosphere which 9. 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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