ABUTILON     Meditation
ACACIA (Rose or white)     Elegance, friendship
ACACIA (yellow)     Secret love
ACANTHUS     Artifice, fine arts
ACHILLEA     War
ACONITE     Lustre, misanthropy
ADDER'S-TONGUE     Jealousy
ADONIS     Sad memories
AGRIMONY     Gratitude
ALLSPICE     Compassion
ALMOND (common)     Indiscretion, perfidy
ALOE     grief, misplaced devotion, religious superstition
ALSTOREMERIA     Devotion
ALTHEA     Consumed by love
ALYSSYM (sweet)     Excellence beyond beauty, exemplary modesty
AMARANTH     Foppery, immortality, pretension
AMARANTH (coxcomb)     Affectation, pretension
AMARANTH (globe)     Constant, unchangeable
AMARYLLIS     Beautiful, timid, proud
AMBROSIA     Love returned
ANEMONE     Fading hope
ANGELICA     Inspiration, magic
APOCYNUM     Falsehood, figment, I doubt you
APPLE-BLOSSOM     Preference
ARBOR-VITAE     I never change, live for me
ARBOR-VITAE (American)     immortality
ARBUTUS     You only do I love
ASCLEPIAS     Sorrowful remembrance
ASH     Prudence, with me you are safe
ASMINE (night-blooming)     Love's vigil
ASPEN     Excess of sensibility, fear
ASPHODEL     Memorial sorrow, my regrets follow you to the grave
ASTER (China)     Afterthoughts, love of variety
AURICULA     Painting, wealth is not always happiness
AURICULA (scarlet)     Pride
AZALEA     Moderation, temperance, your blush has won me