Flower Sentiments from the Victorian Era.

Victorian Scrapbook Clipart: A Basket of Flowers.

• Acacia, Yellow = Concealed Love
• Acanthus = Art
• Almond = Heedlessness
• Amaranth = Immortality
• Alyssum = Worth beyond Beauty
• American Star Wort = Welcome to a Stranger
• Anemone, Garden = Forsaken
• Auricula = Painting
• Aspen Tree = Lamentation
• Azalea = Romance
• Bay Leaf = I change but in dying
• Bell Flower, Pyramidal = Gratitude
• Bilberry = Treachery
• Black Poplar = Courage
• Blue Canterbury Bell = Constancy
• Borage = Bluntness, or Roughness of Manners
• Bundles of Reeds = Music
• Bramble = Remorse
• Carnation, Yellow = Disdain
• Candy Tuft = Indifference
• Cherry, Winter = Deception
• Cinquefoil = Parental Love
• Convolvulus Minor = Night
• Crown Imperial = Pride of Birth
• Crocus = Cheerfulness, Smiles
• Columbine = Desertion
• Clematis, English = Traveler’s Joy
• Corchorus = Impatience of Absence
• Coboea = Gossips
• Coreopsis = Love at First Sight
• Cross of Jerusalem = Devotion
• Cypress = Death
• Daisy = Innocence
• Daisy, Michaelmas = Farewell
• Dandelion = Coquetry
• Dead Leaves = Sadness
• Evergreen = Poverty
• Eglantine or sweet briar = Poetry
• Eupatorian = Delay
• Fig Marygold = Sacred Affection
• Geranium, Mourning = Despondency
• Guelder Rose = Winter
• Hackmetack = Single Blessedness
• Hawthorn = Hope
• Heath = Solitude
• Helenium = Tears
• Houstonia = Content
• Honeysuckle, Trumpet = I have dreamed of thee
• Hydrangea = Heartlessness
• Hyacinth = Grief
• India Cross = Resignation
• Ivy = Friendship
• Laburnum = Pensive Beauty
• Larkspur = Fickleness
• Lettuce = Cold Hearted
• Locust = Affection beyond the grave
• Love in a Mist = You puzzle me
• Linden Tree = Matrimony
• Lilac = First Emotion of Love
• Live Oak = Liberty
• Lucern = Life
• Marygold, French = Jealousy
• Meadow Saffron = My best days are gone
• Moss = Maternal Love
• Mountain Pink = Aspirings
• Milfoil, Common = War
• Moonwort = Forgetfulness
• Myosotis, or Mouse Ear = Forget me not
• Nasturtium = Patriotism
• Nettle = Slander
• Nightshade = Dark Thoughts
• Oleander = Beware
• Olive = Peace
• Pansy, or Heart’s Ear = Think of Me
• Passion Flower = Religious Fervor
• Pea = An appointed Meeting
• Peach, Blossom = This Heart is Thine
• Periwinkle = Sweet Remembrances
• Petunia = Thou art less proud than they deem thee
• Persimmon = Bury me amid Nature’s beauties
• Pheasant’s Eye, or Flos Adonis = Sorrowful Remembrances
• Phlox = Our souls are united
• Poplar, White = Time
• Primrose, Evening = Inconstancy
• Poppy = Consolation of Sleep
• Primrose = Early Youth
• Pride of China = Dissension
• Pink, Red = Woman’s Love
• Pine = Pity
• Pine Spruce = Hope in Adversity
• Pine Apple = You are perfect
• Ranunculus = You are radiant with charms
• Rose = Beauty
• Rosemary = Remembrance
• Saffron Flower = Excess is dangerous
• Snap Dragon = You are dazzling, but dangerous
• Snow Ball = Thoughts of Heaven
• Stramonium, Common = Disguise
• Sorrel = Wit
• Spindle Tree = Your image is engraven on my heart
• Syringa = Memory
• Thrift = Sympathy
• Tiger Flower = For once may pride befriend thee
• Tulip = Declaration of Love
• Tulip, Tree = Rural Happiness
• Venus’s Looking Glass = Flattery
• Venus’s Fly Trap = Have I caught you at last?
• Virgin’s Bower = Artifice
• Wall Speedwell = Fidelity
• White Lily = Purity
• Weeping Willow = Melancholy
• Woodbine = Fraternal Love
• Wood Sorrel = Joy
• Wormwood = Absence

Window Flower Box

Given fresh mosses or leaves, a few trailing creepers and two or three spikes of flowers, and the effect will be charming in a window box made after any of the following descriptions. These methods are all cheap and feasible for securing the effect desired.

The box may be made of zinc, painted to suit one’s taste, or of common white pine stained and oiled, with a strip of molding or a few lichens and fir cones tacked on by way of ornament. Or prettier still, it may be turned into a rustic affair by covering it withy narrow horizontal lengths of rough-barked wood. Birch bough or laurel, or both alternating, will answer, halved lengthwise with the saw, and cut into sections to fit the box, the shelf which supports it being edged with the same. Or a gaily colored affair may be made with narrow strips of oilcloth, finished off with a wooden molding at top and bottom, a set pattern being chosen of bright solid colors, like the tiles, which are so much in vogue for more expensive arrangements. Or a most unique and tasty box may be made by first painting it white, then lay ferns, green or pressed ferns, upon the sides in tasteful designs, and sift clean brown sand over the whole side, after which remove the ferns, and the fern designs with all their delicate tracery of fronds, will appear distinctly in white.

The box we illustrate here was ornaments with a mixture of acorns and pounded shells. Cut all the acorns in half lengthwise. Cover the box with glue. Make an edge each way of acorns, and then cover the box all over with rows of acorns moderately close together. Sift the pounded shell all over the box thickly between the acorns. The acorns are varied with cone seeds and red berries cut in half.

Whatever style of box is used, unless the window seat is of unusual width, brackets must be put underneath, or a stronger pine shelf must be adjusted in the recess to support the box, and the edge which fronts the room just be ornamented or stained to match.

R.I.P Sulphur Shelf Mushroom

You can see the rocks that the local trash children used to destroy this once fabulous sulphur shelf mushroom.

Bright Orange Fungus

I really need a better camera, and a tripod would come in handy. I love macro photography. All I have at present is a dinky Kodak Easy Share.

My found mushroom is the Sulphur Shelf Mushroom. I have been tempted to harvest it, but it’s a little too close to the side of the road. Three roads converge at that point, and when it rains, all of the fertilizer, gas, oil, and other street funk pours down the road and soaks the area where this mushroom is growing.

http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles4.htm

http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomchickens.html

http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/?p=52

I wonder if there is a way for me to transport the thing–log and all-to my place. It’s only a matter of time before one of the local idiot children find it and destroy it.

Poison Hemlock?

I thought it was interesting, it was growing so fast, a dainty giant. Now I have to think of a safe way to eliminate the thing. Geeze.

Another pic under the fold…