# The Floral Fortune-teller/White Flowers

PART I.
WHITE FLOWERS.
Describing your Character.
APPLE-BLOSSOM.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
APRICOT-BLOSSOM.
What an eye!—Methinks it sounds a parley of provocation.—An inviting eye, and yet, methinks, right modest.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
ANEMONE, OR WIND FLOWER.
Coleridge.
Shakspeare.
BACHELOR’S BUTTON.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
BALSAMINE.
Beaumont.
Keats.
BLOOD ROOT.
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare.
CALLA.
Marlowe.
Ford.
CANDY TUFT.
Handsome, young, and hast all those requisites that folly and green minds look after.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
CHINA ASTER.
Shakspeare.
Thy mind is a very opal! I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere.
Shakspeare.
CAMELLIA.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
CLEMATIS.
Shakspeare.
Believe me, in thy breast are thy destiny’s stars. Trust in thyself. Decision is thy Venus. The Malignant, the only one that injures thee, is irresolution.
Schiller.
CANTERBURY BELL.
Tennyson.
Shakspeare.
COLUMBINE.
Shakspeare.
You are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
Shakspeare.
CHRYSANTHEMUM.
Shakspeare.
Shakespeare.
DAHLIA.
Shakspeare.
Dryden.
DAISY.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
DAFFODIL.
Wordsworth.
Shakspeare.
ELDER.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another; you jig, you amble, you lisp.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
EVERLASTING.
Wordsworth.
Shakspeare.
HOLLYHOCK.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
HOUSTONIA.
Wordsworth.
Cowper.
HONEYSUCKLE.
Cowper.
Shakspeare.
HAWTHORN.
Wordsworth.
Thomson.
JASMINE.
Burns.
Cowper.
LILY.
Tennyson.
Shakspeare.
LOCUST.
Beauty has corrupted thy heart. That little face! shame on thee! In the morning its splendor dies, its rose sheds its leaves. Swallows that love in the spring-time fly when the north-wind blows. Thine autumn will frighten away thy lovers.
Schiller.
Shakspeare.
LARKSPUR.
Burns.
Thomson.
LEMON.
Thomson.
Tennyson.
LUPINE.
Thomson.
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he can stand to in a month.
Shakspeare.
MALLOWS.
Shakspeare.
Thomson.
MYRTLE.
Shakspeare.
ORANGE FLOWER.
A lady of most confirmed honor, of an unmatchable spirit, and determinable in all virtuous resolutions; not hasty to anticipate an affront, nor slow to feel, where just provocation is given.
Lamb.
Burns.
OX-EYE.
Shelley.
Wordsworth.
PEA-BLOSSOM.
Shelley.
Wordsworth.
PETUNIA.
Shelley.
Wordsworth.
PEONY.
Shakspeare.
Cowper.
PINK.
Wordsworth.
Wordsworth.
POPPY.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
POTATO.
Burns.
Lamb.
ROSE.
Burns.
A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s talk withal.
Shakspeare.
SNOW-DROP.
Burns.
Lamb.
STRAWBERRY-BLOSSOM.
Burns.
Lamb.
SNOWBALL.
Shakspeare.
A unit; a thing without a name in the state; a something to be governed, not to govern.
Lamb.
SWEET-WILLIAM.
Wordsworth.
Lamb.
SPIREA.
Thou art of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, that thou holdest it a vice in thy goodness not to do more than thou art requested.
Shakspeare.
Shakspeare.
STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Shakspeare.
Rogers.
SYRINGA.
Wordsworth.
Shakspeare.
VERBENA.
Shakspeare.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before it is a peascod, or a codling when’t is almost an apple.
Shakspeare.
VIOLET.
Lamb.
Wordsworth.
YARROW.
Burns.
Shakspeare.