CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Chapter One. Flowers

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 82641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lliannanshe" 
<lliannanshe_ensueno at v...> wrote:

> US ED
> OOP pg 1 ...he had kidden himself behind a large hydrangea bush...
> OOP pg 5 ...Harry fell forward over the hydrangea bush...
> OOP pg 10...reduced to squatting among dying begonias...
> 
> Harry also "stepped into the shadow of a large Lilac tree" OOP pg 
12
> 
> 
> Magnolia, Petunia, Beginias, Hydrangeas, Wisteria (white flowers), 
> Privet (white flowers), Lilac all mentioned in Chp 1.

Magnolia: "Love of Nature"

Petunia: "Humility" "Am Not Proud"

Begonia: "Deformed"

Hydrangea: "Heartlessness"  "A Boaster"

Wisteria (white): "Extreme Devotion"

Privet: "Mildness"  "Prohibition"

Lilac: "First Love" White lilac can also represent "Youth, 
Innocence, or Candor."

All definitions, except for Wisteria, were taken from In the Garden 
(http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/flowers.html)  

Definition for Wisteria from Flower Language 
(http://mimi.essortment.com/flowerslanguag_rvep.htm)

I did find the "beware" definition for Begonia at Pioneer Thinking 
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/flowerlanguage.html

I also checked the site, Longbourn (a Jane Austin site) 
http://www.angelfire.com/de2/longbourn/referenceflowers.html to see 
if the definitions differed in any way, but most of the above 
flowers weren't mentioned.

I can't see that all of the flowers' meanings could apply to the 
story.  One never knows, though.

Katrina
who really should move away from the computer and do 
something "useful" this morning.

My own bumper sticker:
"Every Mother is a Working Mother"