The Victorian Language of Flowers S

Saffron : beware of success; Meadow : my happiest days are past
Sage : domestic virtue; Garden: esteem
Sainfoin : agitation
St.Johnswort : suspicion, superstition; animosity
Salvia, Blue : I think of you; Red : energy, esteem; passionate love often short lived
Sanifrage : humility, only smile at me and my reward will be great; Mossy : affection
Scabious : unfortunate love, unlucky; you are mistaken, I do not love you
Scarlet Lynchis : sunbeaming eyes
Schinus : religious enthusiasm
Scilla, Blue : forgive and forget; Siberia : pleasure without compare; White : sweet innocence
Sedum : lover's wreath
Sensitive Plant (Mimosa) : sensibility; you are too brusque
Shamrock : light-heartedness
Snakesfoot : horror
Snapdragon : refusal, you are nothing to me; presumption; desperation
Snowdragon : presumption
Snowball : bound
Snowdrop : hope, renewed addresses, I make another bid for your love; consolation
Solomon's Seal : simplicity, neither rich nor fortunate, yet I dare love you
Sorrel : affection; Wild : wit ill-timed; Wood : joy, maternal tenderness
Southernwood : jest, bantering
Speedwell : female fidelity; Germander : facility; Spiked : semblance
Spider Wort : esteem not love
Spindle Tree : your charms are engraven on my heart
Star of Bethlehem : purity
Starwort : afterthought; American : cheerfulness in old age; welcome stranger
Stephanutis : you boast too much
Stock : lasting beauty; Ten-week : promptness
Stonecrop : tranquility
Straw, Broken : rupture of a contract; Whole : union
Strawberry Blossoms : foresight; Tree : esteem not love
Sumac, Venice : splendor, intellectual excellence
Sunflower, Dwarf : adoration, devotion; Tall : haughtiness, things that glitter do not impress
Swallow-wort : cure for heartache
Sweetbriar, American : simplicity; European : I wound to heal; Yellow : decrease of love
Sweet-gale : encouragement, I like you a little
Sweet Pea : delicate pleasures and departure, tenderness, your memory is very sweet;
Sweet-sultan : I wish you happiness
Sweet William : gallantry; coquetry, I was only teasing
Sycamore : curiousity
Syringa : memory; Carolina : disappointment

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