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Abruptness = Borage
Absence = Wormwood
Absent friends = Zennae
Abundance = Corn
Abuse not = Crocus
Accommodating disposition/An accommodating disposition = Valerian; Common Valerian
Acknowledgement = Canterbury Bell
Activity = Thyme
Addresses rejected = Ficoides
Admiration = Amethys/Amethyst
Adoration = Dwarf Sunflower
Adroitness = Spider Ophrys
Adulation = Cacalia
Advice = Rhubarb
Affectation = Cockscomb Amaranth; Morning Glory
Affection = Pear Tree;Morning Glory; Mossy Saxifrage; Pear; Sorrel
Affection beyond the grave = Locust; Locust Tree; Locust Tree
Affection, pure = Red Double Pink
Affection returned = Jonquil
Affliction = Black Poplar
Afterthought = Large flowered Aster; China Aster; Michaelmas Daisy; Starwort
Age = Guelder Rose (Snowball) (1885/1892); Tree of Life (1899)
Agitation = Rhododendron; Moving Plant; Quaking-Grass; Sainfoin
Agreement = Straw; Corn Straw; Lancaster Rose
Aid = Jumper
Alas! for my poor heart = Deep Red Carnation
Always cheerful = Coreopsis
Always lovely = Tea Rose; Double Indian Pink; Indian Double Pink
Always reliable = Cresses
Always remembered = Everlasting
Am I forgotten? = Holly
Am I indifferent to you? = Flowering Dogwood; Satin Flower
Am not proud = Petunica
Ambassador of love = Cabbage rose
Ambition = Hollyhock; Mountain Laurel
Ambition of a hero = Mountain Laurel
Ambition of a scholar = Hollyhock
The ambition of my love thus plagues itself = Fuchsia
Amiability/Amiableness = White Jessamine; White Jasmine; Jasmine
Amusement = Bladder-Nut Tree
Anger = Furze; Peony; Gorse; Whin
Animosity = Saint John's Wort
Anticipation = Anemone; Gooseberry
Anxious = Red Columbine
Anxious and trembling = Red Columbine
Appointed meeting/An appointed meeting = Pea; Everlasting Pea
Architecture = Candytuft
Ardor/Ardour = Arum; Cuckoo Plant
Ardor, great warmth = Spotted Arum
Argument = Fig
Art/Arts = Acanthus
Artifice = Clematis; Sweet William; Acanthus; Fly-Trap
Aspiring = Mountain Pink
Assiduous to please = Sprig of Ivy with tendrils; Ivy Tendrils
Assignation = Pimpernel
Astonishment = Dragon's-wort
Asylum = Jumper
Attachment = Indian Jasmine
Audacity, boldness = Larch
Austerity = Thistle; Common Thistle
Avarice = Aurilica; Scarlet Auricula
Aversion = Indian Pink;Pink China; China or Indian Pink; Single Indian Pink; Indian Single Pink
Banquet = Parsley
Bantering = Southernwood
Baseness, meanness = Dodder; Dodder of Thyme
Bashful love = Damask Rose
Bashful shame = Deep Red Rose
Bashfulness, diffidence = Peony
Be mine = Four-leaved Clover
Be my support = Black Bryony
Be prudent = Triptilion Spinosum
Be warned in time = Echites Atro-purporea
Beautiful but timid = Amaryllis
Beautiful eyes = Variegated Tulip
Beauty = Orchis; Rose; Party-coloured Daisy
Beauty always/ever new = Monthly Rose; China Rose
Beauty divine = American Cowslip
Beauty is your only attraction = Japan Rose
Beauty unknown to possessor = Red Daisy
A Belle or a beauty = Orchis
Beloved child = Cinquefoil
A beloved daughter = Cinquefoil/Cinque-foil
Beneficience = Marshmallow; Potato; Marsh Mallow
Benevolence = Calycanthus; Hyacinth; Potato
Betrayed/Betrayal = Judas-Tree; White Catchfly
Beware = Oleander; Bay (Rose) Rhododendron; Rhododendron; Rosebay (Rhododendron)
Beware of a false friend = Francisca Latifolia
Beware of excess = Saffron/Saffron Flower
Beware of the coquette = Catalpa Flower
Birth = Dittany; Dittany of Crete
Bitter memories = Adonis Vernalis
Bitter truth = Nightshade
Bitterness = Aloe
Blackness = Ebony
Blemish = Henbane
Bluntness = Borage
Blushes = Marjoram
Boaster = Hydrangea
Boldness = Larch; Pink
Bond of love = Honeysuckle
Bonds = Convolvulus
Bonds of affection = Gillyflower
Bound = Snowball
Bravery = Oak; Oak Leaves
Bravery and humanity = French Willow; Oak Leaf
Bridal favour = Ivy Geranium
Bridal festivities = Orange Flower
Brilliant complexion = Damask Rose
Budding beauty = Repens Epigaea (Mayflower)
Bulk/Bulkiness = Gourd; Water Melon
Bulky, ungainly = Gourd
Bury me amid nature's beauties = Persimmon
Busybody = Quamoclit
Call me not beautiful = Unique Rose
Calm repose = Buckbean
Calmness = Buckbean
Calumny, scandal = Hellebore; Madder
Candor = White Violet; White Lilac
Capricious beauty = Lady's Slipper; Musk Rose
Caught at last = Venus's Flytrap; Catchfly
Celibacy = Bachelors Button
Chagrin = Garden Marigold
Change = Pimpernel
Changeable disposition = Rye Grass
Charity = Grape; Turnip
Charming = Musk-cluster Rose; Musk Rose Cluster
Chaste love = Acacia
Chastity = Orange Flower; Orange Blossom
Cheerfulness = Crocus
Cheerfulness in old age = American Starwort
Cheerfulness under adversity = Chinese Chrysanthemum; Xeranthemum
Childishness = Buttercup
Chivalry = Daffodil; Monkshood; Great Yellow Daffodil
Cleanliness = Hyssop
Coarseness, grossness = Pompion or Pumpkin
Cold-hearted/Cold-heartedness = Lettuce
Coldness = Agnus Casus/Castus (Chaste-tree, Abraham's Balm); Lettuce
The color of my fate = Coral Honeysuckle
Come down = Jacob's Ladder
Comfort/Comforting = Pear Tree; Scarlet Geranium
Compassion = Elder; Allspice
Complaisance = Reeds
Concealed love = Acacia; Motherwort
Conceit, conceited = Pomegranate
Concert = Nettle Tree
Concord = Lote Tree
Confessed love = Moss Rosebud
Confession of love = Rosebud; Moss Rosebud
Confidence = Hepatica; Liverwort; Polyanthus; Lilac Polyanthus
Confidence/confide in heaven = Flowering Reed; Flowering Rush
Conjugal = Linden or Lime Tree
Conjugal love = Linden Tree; Linden or Lime Tree; Linden Sprig
Consolation = Snowdrop; Poppy; Corn Poppy; Red Poppy
Constancy = Bell Flower; Blue Hyacinth; Box/Box Tree; Broken Straw; Bluebell; Canterbury Bell; Hyacinth; Pyramidal Bell Flower
Constancy in friendship = Box
Constancy in love = Cedar Sprig
Consumed by love = Althea; Syrian Mallow
Content = Houstonia; Houstania
Continuance = Cornelian Cherry Tree
Coquetry = Dandelion; Day Lily; Morning Glory
Cordiality, affability = Peppermint
Could you bear poverty = Browallia Jamisonii
Counterfeit = Mock Orange
Courage, daring = Black Poplar; Pine Tree
Crime = Tamarisk
Criticism = Cucumber
Cruelty = Marigold; Nettle
Cure/A cure/Cure, relief = Balm; Balm of Gilead
Cure for heartache = Yarrow; Cranberry; Swallow-wort
Curiosity = Sycamore
Danger = Bay (Rose) Rhododendron; Rhododendron; Rosebay (Rhododendron)
Dangerous pleasure(s) = Tuberose
Daring = Pine
Dark thoughts = Nightshade
Dead hope = Convolvulus Major
A deadly foe is near = Monkshood/Monk's-hood
Death = Cypress
Death preferable to loss of innocence = White Rose (dried)
Deceit/Deception = Monkshood; Apocynum (Dogbane); Dogsbane; Flytrap; Venus Trap; White Cherry Tree; Winter Cherry
Deceitful charms = Datura; Thorn Apple
Declaration of love = Tulip; Red Tulip
Decrease of love = Yellow Rose; Yellow Sweetbrier
Decrease of love, unfaithfulness = Yellow Rose
Defference, respect = Small Bindweed
Deformed = Begonia
Dejection = Aloe; Lupine; Lichen
Delay = Eupatorium; Fever Root
Delicacy = Blue Bottle; Calla Lilly; Centaury; Corn Bottle/Cornbottle
Delicate beauty = Hibiscus; Flower-of-an-Hour; Venetian Mallow
Delicate feelings = Sensitive Plant
Delicate pleasures = Sweet Pea
Departure/Depart = Sweet Pea; Dandelion Ball
Desertion = Columbine; Windflower Anemone
Desertion, forsaken = Windflower
Desire = Jonquil
Desire of riches = Kings-cups
Desire to please = Mezereon
Despair/Dispair = Cypress and Marigold
Despair not = White Julienne
Despondency = Humble Plant
Determination = Canary Grass
Devoted love = Honeysuckle; Wild Honeysuckle
Devotion = Peruvian Heliotrope; Heliotrope; Passion Flower
Dexterity = Sweet William
Difficulty/Difficulties = Black Thorn
Diffidence = Cyclamen
Dignity = Clove Pink; Elm; Cloves; Laurel-leaved Magnolia
Dignity and elegance = Dahlia
Dignity and grace = Elm
Dignity of mind = Hundred-leaved Rose
Disappointment = Carolina Syringa; Spring Caroline
Discretion = Lemon Blossom; Maiden's Hair
Disdain = Yellow Carnation; Rue; Yellow Pink
Disguise = Common Stramonium; Thorn Apple
Disgust = Frog Ophrys
Dissension = Pride of China
Distinction = Cardinal Flower
Distrust = Lavender
Divine beauty = American Cowslip
Do me justice = Chestnut Tree; Chestnut
Do not abuse me = Saffron/Saffron Flower ; Saffron Crocus
Do not forget = Forget-me-not
Do not refuse me = Carrot Flower
Docility = Rush; Bulrush
Domestic economy = House-Leek
Domestic happiness = Holly; Monthly Honeysuckle
Domestic industry = Flax; House-Leek
Domestic virtue = Sage
Doubt, distrust = Apricot Flower
Dreams = Osmunda
Drunkenness = Vine
Durability = Cornelian Cherry Tree; Flowering Dogwood
Duration = Cornelian Cherry Tree; Cornel Tree
Early attachment = Thornless Rose; Blue Periwinkle
Early friendship = Blue Periwinkle
Early youth = Primrose
Economy = Chiccory
Ecstasy = Cape Jasmine Gardenia; Gardenia
Education = Cherry Tree
Egotism, self-love = Narcissus; Poet's Narcissus
Elegance = Pomegranate Flower; Yellow Jessamine; Birch Tree; Locust Tree; Rose or White Acacia
Elegance and dignity = Dahlia
Elevation = Fir Tree; Fir; Scotch Fir
Eloquence = Lagerstroema (Cape Myrtle); Water Lily; Indian Lagerstraemia; Lotus
Eloquence and dignity = Dahlia
Embarrassment = Love-in-a-Puzzle
Enchantment = Vervain; Holly Herb
Encouragement = Golden Rod
Endearing affection = Gorse
Endurance = Pine
Energy in action = Camomile/Chamomile
Energy in adversity = Camomile/Chamomile
Enjoyment = Double Daisy
Ennui = Mosses
Entertainment = Parsley
Envy = Briers; Bramble; Crowsbill; Crane's Bill
Error = Bee Ophrys; Bee Orchis; Fly Orchis
Esteem = Sage; Garden Sage
Esteem and love = Strawberry Tree
Esteem but not love = Spiderwort
Esteemed love = Strawberry Tree
Estranged love = Lotus Flower
Excess is dangerous = Saffron/Saffron Flower
Expectation = Anemone; Anemone (Zephyr Flower)
Expected meeting = Nutmeg Geranium
Extend = Gourd
Extinguished hope(s) = Convolvulus Major; Major Convolvulus
Facility = Valerian; Apple Geranium; Germander Speedwell
Fairies' fire = Pyrus Japonica
Faithfulness = Blue Violet; Peruvian Heliotrope
Faithfulness in adversity = Wallflower
False riches = Sunflower
Falseness/Falsehood = Yellow Lily; Manchineal/Manchineel Tree; Dogsbane
Fame = Trumpet Flower; Tulip; Tulip Tree
Fame speaks him great and good = Apple Blossom
Family union = Pink Verbena
Fantastic extravagance = Scarlet Poppy
Farewell = Michaelmas Daisy; Spruce Pine
Fascination/Fascinating = Fern; Honesty (Lunaria)
Fashion/Fashionable = Queen's Rocket
Fate = Flax; Hemp
Fault = Henbane
Feast, lasting pleasures = Parsley
Fecundity = Hollyhock
Felicity = Sweet Sultan
Female ambition = White Hollyhock
Female fidelity = Veronica Speedwell; Speedwell
Feminine beauty = Calla Lilly
Ferocity and deceit = Arum
Festivity = Parsley
Fickleness = Larkspur; Pink Larkspur; Abatina
Fidelity = Wall Flower; Honeysuckle; Speedwell; Ivy; Veronica
Fidelity in adversity = Wall Flower
Fidelity in love = Lemon Blossom
Fidelity in misfortune = Wall Flower
Fidelity of Miss Fortune = Wall Flower
Filial love = Virgin's Bower
Fine arts = Acanthus
Finesse = Sweet William
Fire = Fraxinella; Hoarhound; Fleur-de-lis
First emotion(s) of love = Lilac; Purple Lilac
Fitness = Sweet Flag
Flame = German Iris; Fleur-de-lis; Yellow Iris
Flattery = Venus's Looking-Glass
Flee away = Pennyroyal
Flirt = Mezereon
Fly with me = Venus Car
Foe is near = Monkshood
Folly = Columbine
Foolishness = Pomegranate
Foppery = Coxcomb; Cockscomb Amaranth
For once my pride befriend me = Tiger Flower
Force = Fennel
Foresight = Holly
Forever thine = Dahlia
Forget me not = Mouse ear; Myosotis; Forget-me-not; Mouse-eared Scorpion Grass
Forgetful of the past = Lotus
Forgetfulness = Moonwort; Satin-flower
Forgiveness of injuries = Cinnamon Tree
Forsaken = Garden Anemone; Weeping Willow; Common Willow; Laburnum
Frankness = Osier
Fraternal love = Clinging Woodbine; Woodbine; Syringa
Freedom = Water Willow
Freshness = Damask Rose
A friend in adversity = Snowdrop
Friendship = Rose Acacia; Ivy; Acacia; Ivy Leaf
Frivolity = London Pride; Bladder-Nut Tree
Frivolous amusement(s) = Bladder-Nut Tree; Bladder Tree
Frugality = Chickory/Chiccory; Endine; Fuchsia; Endive
Fruitfulness = Hollyhock
Future joy = Celandine
Gaiety = Butterfly Orchis; Yellow Lily
Gallantry = Sweet William; A Nosegay
Game = Hyacinth
Generosity = Orange; Orange Tree
Generous and devoted affection = Honeysuckle
Genius = Plane Tree; Plane or Platane; Plum Tree
Gentility = Corn Cockle; Pompon Rose
Giddiness = Almond
Girlhood = White Rosebud
Give me your good wishes = Basil
Gladness, mirth = Myrrh
Glorious beauty = Glory Flower
Glory = Laurel; Mountain Laurel; Bay Tree; Glory Flower
Go not away = Everlasting Pea
Good and kind = Mallow
Good education = Cherry Tree ; Cherry
Good luck = Mugwort
Good nature = Mullein/Mullen; White Mullein
Good news = Guelder Rose
Good wishes = Sweet Basil
Goodness = Goosefoot; Snowball; Borus Henricus; Bonus Henricus
Gossip = Coboea; Mercury
Grace and elegance = Yellow Jasmine
Grace and eloquence = Yellow Jasmine
Gracefulness = Birch Tree; China Rose; Multiflora Rose; Yellow Jessamine
The graces = Hundred Leaf Rose
Grandeur = Ash; Ash Tree
Gratitude = Canterbury Bell; Bell Flower; Agrimony; Camillia; Bell Flower (small white); Camellia
Grief = Harebell; Garden Marigold; Aloe; Marigold
Grief, trouble, pain = Marigold
Grossness = Pompion or Pumpkin
Growing old = Meadow Saffron
Guidance = Star of Bethlehem
Happiness = Mugwort; Sweet Sultan
Happy love = Bridal Rose
Hardness, harshness = Scratchweed
Hatred = Basil; Fumitory
Haughtiness = Purple Larkspur; Tall Sunflower
Healing = Balm of Gilead
Health = Iceland Moss
Heart ignorant of love = Bud of White Rose
A heart left to desolation = Chrysanthemum
The heart that knows not love = White Rosebud
Heart's-ease = Purple Pansy
Heart's mystery = Polyanthus; Crimson Polyanthus
Heartache cure = Pleurisy Root
Heartlessness = Hydrangea
Heedlessness = Almond
Hermitage = Milkwort
Hidden merit = Coriander
Hidden worth = Coriander
High-bred, high-souled = Scarlet Lily
Honesty = Honesty (Lunaria)
Honor = Mandrake
Hope = Hawthorn; Almond; Bachelor's Button; Almond (Flowering); Snowdrop
Hope and love = Bachelor's Button
Hope in adversity = Spruce Pine
Hope in love = Bachelor's Button
Hope in misery = Milkweed
Hopeless love = Yellow Tulip
Hopeless, not heartless = Love Lies Bleeding
Horror = Mandrake; Serpent Cactus; Creeping Cereus; Dragonwort; Snakesfoot
Hospitality = Oak; Oak Tree; Oak Sprig
Humble love = Fuchsia
Humility = Bindweed; Broom; Field Lilac; Small Bindweed; Humble Plant
Hypocrisy = Ebony; Minchineel Tree
I adore you = Heliotrope
I am ambitious only for you = Fox Glove
I am cured = Balm of Gilead
I am dazzled by your charms = Ranunculus
I am sensible of your kindness = Flax
I am too happy = Cape Jasmine
I am worthy of you = White Rose; Full White Rose
I am your captive = Peach Blossom
I attach myself to you = Ipomaca; Indian Jasmine
I burn = Fleur-de-lis
I change but in death/dying = Bay Leaf
I cling to thee = Chickweed; Vetch
I dare not = Verinoca Speciosa
I declare against you = Tansy; Wild Belvidere (Licorice); Belvedere; Wild Licorice
I declare war against you = Tansy
I desire a return of affection = Jonquil
I desire to please = Daphne Mezereon
I die if neglected = Laurestina/Laurestine/Laurestinus
I dream of thee = Osmunda
I engage you for the next dance = Ivy Geranium
I expect a meeting = Nutmeg Geranium
I fall a victim = White Catchfly
I feel my obligations = Lint
I feel your benefits = Flax
I feel your kindness = Flax
I have a message for you = Iris
I have lost all = Mourning Bride (Scabious)
I live for thee = Cedar; Cedar Leaf; Cedar Sprig
I love = Peruvian Heliotrope; Red Chrysanthemum
I love you = Red Rose
I mourn your absence = Zinnia
I never trouble = Rose Leaf
I offer you my all = Shepherd's Purse
I partake your sentiments = Double China Aster ; Garden Daisy
I prefer you = Rose Geranium
I promise = White Clover
I shall die to-morrow = Gum Cistus
I share your feelings/sentiments = Garden Daisy
I surmount all difficulties = Mistletoe
I surmount all obstacles = Mistletoe
I surmount everything = Mistletoe
I think of thee = Everlasting
I watch over you = Mountain Ash
I weep for you = Purple Verbena
I will not answer hastily = Monthly Honeysuckle
I will think of it, deliberation = Wild Daisy; Single Field Daisy; Single China Aster
I will think of thee = China Aster
I will not survive you = Black Mulberry
I wish I was rich = King-cup
I would not have you otherwise = Daphne Odora
I wound to heal = Eglantine; European Sweetbrier
I'm too happy = Cape Jasmine
Idleness = Fig Marigold; Mesembryanthemum
If you love me you will find me/it out/discover it = Maiden's Blush Rose
Ill temper(ed) = Barberry; Crab Blossom
Ill-natured beauty = Citron
Illness = Garden Anemone
Imagination = Lupine
Immortality = Amaranth; Amaranth (Globe)
Impatience = Balsam; Touch me not, Balsam; Balsamine; Yellow Balsam
Impatience of happiness = Corchorus
Impatient of absence = Corchorus
Impatient resolves = Red Balsam
Imperfection = Henbane
Importunity = Burdock
In love = Rose Chrysanthemum
Inconstancy = Evening Primrose
Incorruptible = Cedar of Lebanon
Independence = Wild Plum Tree; White Oak
Indifference = Box/Box Tree; Candytuft; Mustard Seed; Agnus Casus/Castus; Everflowering Candytuft; Pigeon Berry; Senvy
Indiscretion = Almond (Common); Split Reed
Indolence = Mittaria Coccinea
Industry = Bee Orchis; Red Clover
Infatuation, adoration = Peruvian Heliotrope
Infidelity = Yellow Rose
Ingeniousness/Ingenuity = Pencilled Geranium; White Pink
Ingenuous simplicity = Mouse-ear Chickweed
Ingratitude = Inermis Rose; Crowfoot; Buttercup; Wild Ranunculus
Injustice = Hop
Innocence = White Daisy; Houstania; Daisy; White Violet
Insincerity = Fox Glove
Insinuation = Great Bindweed
Inspiration, inspire me = Angelica; Apocynum (Dogbane); Angelica Herb
Instability = Dahlia
Integrity = Gentian
Intellect = Walnut
Intellectual beauty = Kennedia
Intellectual excellence = Venice Sumach
Intemperance = Grape Vine; Grape
Intoxicating = Vine
Intoxication = Vine
Intrinsic worth = Fringed Gentian; Gentian
Irony = Sardonia; Sardony
Jealousy = Hyacinth; French Marigold; Yellow Rose
Jest/Jesting = Southernwood
Joy = Wood Sorrel
Joys to come = Celandine
Justice = Rudbeckia
Justice shall be done you = Coltsfoot; Sweet-scented Tussilage
Justice shall be done = Coltsfoot
Keep promise/Keep your promises
Plum Tree (1883(I)/1883(II)/1899)
Kindness
Bluebell (1899)
Knight-errantry
Helmet Flower (Monkshood) (1885/1892)
Lady, deign to smile = Oak Geranium
Lamentation, sighing = Aspen Tree; Aspen Leaf
Lasting beauty = Gillyflower; Common Gillyflower; Stock
Lasting pleasure = Everlasting Pea
Let me go = Butterfly Weed
Let us forget = Yellow Sweetbrier
Levity, hilarity = Larkspur
Liberty = Live Oak
Life, existence = Lucerne/Lucern
Life without love = Agnus Casus/Castus (Chaste-tree, Abraham's Balm)
Light heartedness = Shamrock
Lightness = Pink Larkspur; Larkspur
Live for me = Arbor vitae
Lofty and wise thoughts = Tall Sunflower
Longevity, long-lived = Fig
Love = Blue Violet; Myrtle; Rose; Red Rose
Love, ardent and sincere = Red Pink
Love at first sight = Corcopsis; Coreopsis Arkansa; Arkansas Coreopsis
Love beyond the grave = Locust Tree (green)
Love for all seasons = Furze
Love forsaken = Creeping Willow
Love in absence = Myrtle
Love is dangerous = Carolina Rose
Love of Nature, magnificence = Magnolia; Chinese Magnolia
Love of variety = China Aster; Large flowered Aster
Love returned = Ambrosia
Love sweet and secret = Honey Flower
Love's ambassador = Cabbage Rose
Lover's oracle = Dandelion
Lovers' tryst = Beech
Lowliness = Bramble
Luster = Crowfoot Aconite
Luxury = Horse-Chestnut; Chestnut Tree
Magnificent beauty = Calla Æthiopica
Majesty = Crown Imperial; White Lily; Imperial Lily
Make haste = Dianthus
Malevolence = Lobelia
Manners = Wild Rue
Marriage/Matrimony = American Linden; Ivy; Linden or Lime Tree; Linden Leaf; Ivy Vine
Maternal affection = Cinquefoil
Maternal love = Moss
Maternal tenderness = Wood Sorrel
Mature Elegance = Pomegranate Flower
May pride befriend thee = Tiger Flower
May you be happy = Volkamenia
Meanness = Dodder; Cuscuta
Meekness = Birch Tree
Meeting = Sweet Pea
Melancholy = Weeping Willow; Dark Geranium; Leaves (dead); Autumn Leaves
Melancholy mind = Oak Geranium
Memories of childhood = Buttercup
Memory = Syringia; Syringa; Red Bay
Mental beauty = Clematis; Kennedia
Merit Concealed = Coriander
Message/A message for thee = Iris; Common Garden Iris
Mildness = Privet; Mallow
Mirth = Saffron Crocus
Misanthropy = Teasel; Aconite (Wolfsbane); Fuller's Teasel; Fuller's Thistle
Mistrust = Lavender
Modest beauty = Trillium Pictum
Modest genius = Cereus (Creeping)
Modest love = Blue Violet
Modest worth = Yellow Violet; Primrose
Modesty = White Violet; Lily; Calla Lilly; Sensitive Plant; Sweet Violet; Blue Violet
Momentary happiness = Virginian Spiderwort
Moral and mental beauty = Mignonette
Mourning = Cypress; Purple Scabious; Weeping Willow
Music, musical = Oats; Reeds; Bundle of Reeds, with their Panicles
My antidote = White Poppy
My bane = White Poppy
My best days are past = Colchium/Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron
My best days fled = Colchium/Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron
My best days gone = Meadow Saffron
My divinity/You are my divinity = American Cowslip
My happiest days are past = Meadow Saffron
My heart is thine = Peach Blossom
My regrets follow you to the grave = Asphodel
Naivete = Silver Weed
Native grace = Cowslip
Neatness = Broom
Neglected beauty = Throatwood (Pulmonaria); Throatwort
Never ceasing memory = Everlasting
Never-ceasing remembrance = Everlasting
Never despair = Watcher-by-the-wayside
Night = Bindweed; Blue Convolvulus (Minor); Night Convolvulus
No change till death = Bay Leaf
No, never = Snapdragon
Oblivion = White Poppy
Obstacle = Rest Harrow
Obstacles to be overcome = Mistletoe
Occupation = Fox Glove
Old age = Tree of Life
Omen, sign = Small Cape Marigold
Only deserve my love = Campion Rose
Opposition, resistance = Tremella Nestoc
Oracle = Dandelion
Ornament = Hornbeam/Hornbean
Ornament, a treasure = Hornbeam Tree
Ostentation = Peony
Our hearts are united = Phlox
Our souls united = Phlox
Painful recollections = Flos Adonis
Painting = Auricula
Painting the lily = Daphne Odora
Parental affection = Sorrel
Participation = Double Daisy
Passion = White Dittany of Crete; White Dittany
Paternal error = Cardamine
Patience = Ox Eye; Dock; Patience Dock
Patriotism = Nasturtium; American Elm
Peace = Olive; Olive Branch
Peerless and proud = Grandiflora Magnolia
Penitence, repentance = Yew
Pensive beauty = Laburnum
Pensiveness = Cowslip
Perfect excellence = Strawberry
Perfect(ed) loveliness = Juniper; Camillia; White Camellia Japonica
Perfection = Pineapple
Perfection of female loveliness = Justicia
Perfidy = Common Laurel, in flower; Laurel Almond
Perplexity = Love in a Mist
Persecution = Fritilaria (Guinea-hen Flower); Chequered Fritillary
Perseverance = Swamp Magnolia; Canary Grass; Ground Laurel
Persuasion = Althea Frutes (Syrian Mallow)
Pertinacity = Clotbur; Xanthium
Petulance = Barberry
Philosophy = Pitch Pine
Pity = Camelia; Pine; Black Pine
Play = Hyacinth
Pleasant recollections = White Periwinkle
Pleasantry = Mint Balm; Gentle Balm
Pleasure and pain = Dog Rose
Pleasures of memory = White Periwinkle
Poetry = Sweet Briar; Eglantine
Poor, but happy = Vernal Grass
Popular favor = Cistus, or Rock Rose
Poverty, want = Evergreen; Evergreen Clematis
Poverty and worth = Evergreen
Power = Crown Imperial; Cress
Pray for me = White Verbena
Precaution = Golden Rod
Prediction = Prophetic Marigold
Preference = Apple Blossom; Rose Geranium
Preferment = Cardinal Flower
Present preference = Apple Geranium
Presumption = Snapdragon
Pretension = Lythrum; Willow-Herb; Spiked Willow Herb
Pride = Carnation; Fall Sunflower; Hundred Leaf Rose; Amaryllis
Pride of birth = Crown Imperial
Pride of riches = Polyanthus
Privation, suffering = Indian Plum; Myrobalan
Profit = Cabbage
Prohibition = Privit or Prim; Privet
Prolific = Fig Tree
Promptitude/Promptness = Ten-week Stock; Stock Gillyflower
Prosperity = Wheat; Beech
Protection = Juniper; Bearded Crepis; Juniper
Provident = Purple Clover
Prudence = Mountain Ash; Service Tree or Sorb; Lemon Blossom
Pure affection = Pink
Pure and deep love = Carnation
Pure and lovely = Red Rosebud
Pure, ardent love = Double-red Pink
Pure love = Red Pink; Single Pink
Purity = White Lily; Lily; Star of Bethlehem; White Violet
Purity and modesty = White Lily
Purity of heart = Water Lily
Quarrel = Broken Straw(s); Broken Corn
Quicksightedness = Hawkweed
Radiant with charms = Ranunculus; Garden Ranunculus
Rarity = Mandrake
Readiness = Red Valerian
Ready armed = Gladiolus; Gladiola
Reason = Goat's Rue
Recall = Silver-leaf Geranium
Recantation = Lotus Leaf
Reconciliation = Hazel; Filbert; Star of Bethlehem
Refusal = Variegated Pink; Striped Carnation
Regard = Daffodil
Regret = Purple Verbena
Regrets beyond the grave = Asphodel
Relief = Balm of Gilead
Relieve my anxiety = Christmas Rose
Religious enthusiasm = Lychnis; Schinus
Religious fervor = Passion Flower
Religious superstition = Aloe; Patience Flower
Remembered beyond the tomb = Asphodel
Remembrance = Rosemary; Pheasant's Eye
Remorse = Bramble; Raspberry
Rendezvous = Pimpernel; Chickweed
Repose = Buckbean; Blue Convolvulus (Minor)
Reserve = Maple
Resignation = Indian Cress
Resistance = Tremella; Tremella Nestoc
Resolved to win = Purple Columbine
Restoration = Persicaria
Retaliation = Scotch Thistle
Retirement, submission = Harebell
Return my affection = Jonquil
Return of happiness = Lily of the Valley
Revenge = Birdsfoot Trefoil; Trefoil
Reverie = Osmunda; Flowering Fern
Reward of merit = Bay Wreath
Reward of virtue = Garland of Roses; Wreath of Roses
Riches = Maize; Buttercup; Corn; Wheat; Corn Buttercup
Rigor = Lantana; Branch of Thorns
Rivalry = Rocket
Romance = Azalea
Roughness = Scratch Weed
Royalty = Angrec
Rudeness = Clotbur; Xanthium; Borage
Rupture = Greek Valerian; Blue-flowered Greek Valerian
Rupture of a contract = Broken Straw
Rural happiness = Tulip Tree ; Yellow Violet
Rustic beauty = French Honeysuckle
Rustic oracle = Dandelion
Sacred affection = Garden Marigold; Marigold
Sadness, sorrow = Deadleaves; Yew
Safety, security = Traveller's Joy
Satire = Barberry; Prickly Pear
Scandal = Hellebore
Sculpture = Hoya (Wax Plant)
Secrecy = Full-blown Rose placed over two Buds
Secret love = Motherwort; Yellow Acacia; Honey Flower
Self-Love = Narcissus
Semblance = Spiked Speedwell
Sensibility = Verbena; Sensitive Plant
Sensitiveness = Mimosa; Sensitive Plant; Verbena
Sensuality = Spanish Jasmine
Separation = Trumpet Flower; Ash-leaved Trumpet Flower; Carolina Jasmine
Serenade = Dew Plant
Severity = Thorns; Branch of Thorns
Shame = Peony
Sharpness = Barberry; Barberry Tree
Shyness = Vetch
Sickness, illness = Anemone (Zephyr Flower); Field Anemone
Sighing = Aspen Tree
Silence = White Rose; Belladonna
Silent love = Primrose
Silliness, silly = Scarlet Geranium; Fools' Parsley
Simplicity = Mouse-ear Chickweed; Wild Rose; Single Wild Rose; American Sweetbrier; Single Rose; Sweet Brier
Sincerity = Honesty; Satin-flower; Fern; Garden Chervil
Single blessedness = Bachelor's Button
Singularity = Cockscomb Amaranth
Skill = Spider Orchis
Slander = Nettle; Burning Nettle; Snake's Lounge
Sleep = White Poppy
Sleep of the heart = White Poppy
Slighted love = Yellow Chrysanthemum
Snare = Dragon Plant; Catchfly
Solace in adversity = Evergreen Thorn
Solitude = Heath; Lichen
Sorcery = Nightshade; Enchanter's Nightshade
Sorrow = Aloe; Yew; Purple Hyacinth
Sorrowful memories/remembrance = Pheasant's Eye
Sourness = Barberry
Sourness of temper = Barberry
Spell = Circaea; Witch Hazel
A spell is on me = Witch Hazel
Spiritual beauty = Cherry Blossom
Spleen = Fumitory
Splendid beauty = Amaryllis; Sumac
Splendor = Sumac; Nasturtium; Austurtium; Venice Sumach
Sport, fun = Hyacinth; Foxtail Grass
Sporting = Foxtail Grass
Stability = Cress ; Cresses
Steadfast piety = Wild Geranium
Sternness = Thistle
Stoicism = Box/Box Tree
Storm = Rainy Marigold
Stratagem = Walnut
Strength = Fennel; Cedar
Stupidity = Almond (Common); Scarlet Geranium; Almond Tree
Submission = Grass; Harebell
Success crown your wishes = Coronella
Success to you = Coronilla
Succour = Juniper
Such worth is rare = Achimeness
Sunbeaming eyes = Scarlet Lychnis
Superior merit = Moss Rose
Superstition = Aloe; Saint John's Wort (Hypericum)
Surety = Cistus or Rock Rose
Surprise = Truffle; Betony; Serpent Cactus
Susceptibility = Wax Plant
Suspicion = Mushroom; Champignon
Sweet and secret love = Honey Flower
Sweet disposition = Lavatera
Sweet memories = Periwinkle
Sweet voice = Tuberose
Sweetness = Mallow; White Lily
Sympathy = Balm; Sweetbriar Rose; Thrift
Talent = White Pink
Tardiness = Flax-leaved Goldy-locks; Flax-leaved Golden Locks
Taste = Scarlet Fuchsia; Fuchsia
Tears = Helenium; Elecampane
Temperance = Acalia; Azalea
Temptation = Apple; Quince
Terror = Snake's-foot
Thankfulness = Agrimony
That smile I aspire to = Daily Rose
Thee only do I love = Arbutus
Think of me = Cedar; Heart's Ease; Pansy; White Clover; Yellow Pansy
Thou art all that is lovely = Austrian Rose
Thou art my life = Lungwort
Thou leavest me = Cactus
Thoughtlessness = Almond Tree
Thoughts of absent friends = Zinnia
Thoughts of heaven = Snowball
Thoughts = Pansy
Thy frown will kill me = Currants
Ties = Tendrils of Climbing Plants; Tendrils of Plants
Time = Pine; White Poplar; Fir
Time and faith = Pitch Pine
Timidity = Marvel of Peru (Four o'clock); Sensitive Plant; Amaryllis
Token = Laurestina/Laurestine/Laurestinus; Ox-Eye Daisy
Too young to love = White Rosebud
Touch me not = Burdock; Red Balsam
Tranquility = Gold Basket; Mudwort; Stonecrop
Tranquilize my anxiety = Christmas Rose
Transient beauty = Night Blooming Cereus
Transient impression = White Rose (withered)
Transient joy = Cape Jessamine
Transport = Cape Jasmine Gardenia; Gardenia
Transport of joy = Cape Jasmine
Treachery = Bilberry; Kalmia (Mountain Laurel); Monkshood; Whortleberry; Aconite
True friendship = Oak-leaf Geranium
True love = Forget-me-not
Truth, veracity = White Chrysanthemum; Bittersweet Nightshade; Nightshade
Unanimity = Phlox
Unbelief = Judas-Tree
Unceasing remembrance = American Cudweed
Uncertainty = Narcissus; Convolvulus Minor; Mock Orange
Unchanging affection = Arbor Vitae
Unchanging friendship = Arbor vitae
Unconscious beauty = Burgundy Rose; Burgunda Rose
Uneasiness = Garden Marigold
Unexpected meeting = Lemon Geranium
Unfading = Amaranth
Unfading love = Amaranth (Globe)
Unfaithfulness = Yellow Rose
Unfortunate attachment = Mourning Bride
Unfortunate love = Scabious
United/Union/Unity = Straw; White and Red Rose together; Whole Straw
United hearts = Phlox
Unobtrusive loveliness = White Hyacinth
Unpatronized merit = Red Primrose
Unpretending excellence = Red Camellia Japonica
Unpretentious = Pasque Flower
Unrequited love = Daffodil
Usefulness = Diosma; Meadow Sweet; Grass
Uselessness = Queen of the Meadow; Meadow Sweet/Meadowsweet
Utility = Grass; Dried Flax
Vain is beauty without merit = Cockle
Vain-glory = Hydrangea
Variety = Double German Aster; China Aster; Mundi Rose
Variety of your conversation delights me = Clarkia
Very lovely = Austrian Rose
Vice = Tare(s); Darnel (Ray grass)
Victory, victorious = Mountain Laurel; Palm
Virtue = Mint
Vivacity = House-Leek
Volubility = Abecedary
Voluptious love = Moss Rose
Voluptuousness = Moss Rose; Tuberose
Voraciousness = Lupine
Vulgar-minded = African Marigold
War, warfare = York and Lancaster Rose; Milfoil; Achillea Millefolia; York Rose
Warlike trophy = Indian Cress
Warmth = Cactus
Warm(th of) feelings /= Spearmint; Peppermint
Warmth of sentiment = Spearmint
Warning = Hand Flower Tree
Watchfulness = Dame Violet
Weakness = Mush Plant; Musk Plant; Moschatel
Wealth = Wheat; Corn Buttercup
Welcome = Trailing Arbutus; Mayflower
Welcome to a stranger = American Star Wort
Widowhood = Mourning Bride Scabious; Sweet Scabious; Sweet Sultan
Will you dance with me? = Viscaria Oculata
Will you smile? = Sweet William
Wilt thou go with me? = Everlasting Pea
Win me and wear me = Lady's Slipper
Winning grace = Cowslip
Winter = Guelder Rose (Snowball)
Wisdom = White Mulberry
Wish = Fox-glove
Wit = Ragged-robin; Meadow Lychnis
Wit ill-timed = Sorrel; Wild Sorrel
Witchcraft = Enchanter's Nightshade
Withered hopes = Garden Anemone
Without pretension = Flora's Bell; Cinnamon Rose
Woman's love = Carnation Pink
Words, though sweet, may deceive = American Laurel
Worldliness = Clyanthus
Worth and loveliness = Mignonette
Worth beyond beauty = Sweet Alyssum
Worth sustained by judicious and tender affection = Pink Convolvulus
Worthy all praise = Fennel
You are a prophet = St. John's Wort
You are aspiring = Mountain Pink
You are beautiful = Full-Blown Rose
You are cold = Hortensia
You are fair = White Pink
You are perfect = Pineapple
You are rich in attractions = Garden Ranunculus
You are the queen of coquettes =Queen's Rocket; Dame Violet
You are too bold = Dyplidinia Brassinoda
You are young and beautiful = Red Rosebud
You have no claims = Pasque Flower
You have many lovers = Chorozema Varium
You occupy my thoughts = Pansy; Purple Heart's Ease; Purple Pansy; Purple Violet
You please all = Branch of Currants
You please me = Currants
You puzzle me = Love in a Mist
You will be my death = Hemlock
Young girl = Rosebud
Your charms are (en)graven on my heart = Spindle-tree
Your devout admirer = Dwarf Sunflower
Your friendship is agreeable to me = Glycine
Your hand for next dance = Ivy Geranium
Your image is engraven(ed) on my heart = Spindle-tree
Your looks freeze me = Ice Plant; Ficoides
Your presence revives me = Rosemary
Your presence softens my pains = Milvetch
Your purity equals your loveliness = Orange Blossoms
Your qualities surpass your charms = Mignonette
Your qualities, like your charms, are unequalled = Peach
Your temper is too hasty = Grammanthes
Youth = White Lilac; Rosebud
Youthful gladness = Spring Crocus
Youthful innocence = White Lilac
Youthful love = Red Catchfly
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Zealousness = Elder
Zest = Lemon
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