“Ah, flowers are lovely, aren’t they? You won’t find a specimen this vibrant in all the void!” Indulging them, you ask if it’s a rare flower. “Not anywhere but here, I should think! It is called a lily of the valley, or variously, a rose of Sharon—’sharon’ being Hebrew for ‘field’. You may as well call it a 'field flower', insofar as either name conveys anything useful or specific about the plant.” > So what’s so special about this one? Does it symbolize anything? |