28 AUGUST 1909, Page 16

[To Tins EDITOR or THE "Spscr■Tos."] SIR,—I am reminded by

the correspondence in your columns of a village child, who brought me the tiny -wild heartsease common on Wiltshire downs with: "Be the right name for they pansy or lovalidus?" We all have heard of a little Western flower, purple from Love's wound-e-..

"And maidens call it love in idleness."

Is it only in Wiltshire that dark red wallflowers are "bloody warriors"? or the grey Southernwood (without which no " nosegay " is complete) is "boy's love "P—I am, Sir, &c., MARY J. H. Slums% The Vicarage, St. Peter-#n-the-Bast, Oggeord.