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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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S. THE language of flowers is a study. at once interesting and inno-cent, cultivating, as it does, ataste for the works of nature,filling the soul with the sweetest emo-tions and presenting to view one of themost enchanting phases of a beautifulworld full of wonders. Following area few of the best known flowers andthe sentiments which they represent: Sweet alyssum,worth beyond beauty;apple blossom, preference; bachelorsbutton, single and selfish; balm, sym-pathy; barberry, sourness; candytuft, indifference; carnation pink, womanslove; Chinese chrysanthemum, cheer-fulness under misfortune; clematis,mental beauty; columbine, folly; redclover, industry; dahlia, dignity; whitedaisy, innocence; faded leaves, melan-choly; forget-me-not, remembrance;jonquil, affection returned; lily of thevalley, return of happiness; myrtle,love in absence; pansy, you occupy mythoughts; moss rose, superior merit;red rose, beauty; white rose, I amworthy of love; sunflower, haughtiness;)ellow rose, infidelity.
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IRIS. OOPyaiGHT 1699, OOUB THE PEACOCK. ANNA R. HENDERSON. ^S THE rose among flowers, so isthe peacock among the feath-ered tribes. No other bird has so many-colors in its plumage. Its hues are allbeautiful; the brilliant blue and black,shot with gold, of the eyes of the tail,the satin-like peacock blue of its neckand breast, the shining green of itsback, each feather with its tiny eye ofbrown, the clear brown of the stiff fanthat supports its tail, the soft graydown that clothes its body—all are fitrobing for this royal bird. In keeping with his kingly raiment ishis regal movement; so graceful, sodignified, that one seems disposed tobelieve the legend of India, his nativehome, that he contains the metamor-phosed spirit of a peerless prince. 1have said that his step is kingly, yetI am often disposed to yield to theopinion of an old man who declaredthat the gait of the peacock is queenly,much like that of a beautiful and grace-ful woman with a long train. Certainit is, that nothing e

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