BIRTH FLOWERS SELECTIONS
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Flowers of the Month
"Between the acres of the rye, with a hey...."
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JANUARY ...
Snowdrops"While I am busy with pleasant preparation and larger hope...."
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FEBRUARY ...
"Violets""A single violet transplant, the strength, the colour, and the size..."
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MARCH ...
"Daffodils""I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils... "
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APRIL ...
"Daisy""Yet, ah, my path is sweet on either side... and long, ah, long as
rapturous eye can cling, the world is mine"
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MAY ...
"Lily of the Valley""This is the day which the Lord hath made..."
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JUNE ...
"Red Rose Buds""And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, and over it softly her warm ear lays..."
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JULY ...
Larkspur"Singing my days, singing the great achievements of the present, ... I see the plentiful larkspur."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
AUGUST ...
"Poppies""The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday.
among the fields, above the sea, among the winds at play..."
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SEPTEMBER ...
Morning Glories"Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life...."
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OCTOBER ...
"Hops""No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden..."
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NOVEMBER ...
"Chrysanthemums""All things touch, all things go hand to hand; all things obey the same invisible principles, the identical exigencies... "
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DECEMBER ...
"Paperwhite Narcissus""The desert shall rejoice and blossom... It shall blossom abundantly,
and rejoice even with joy and singing."
Isaiah 35: 1-2
