(Language of Flowers)THE YOUNG LADIES OF GUMLEY HOUSE.   THE CATHOLIC LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.         London: Burns and Lambert,   1861.          The "young ladies of Gumley House" were pupils of the Convent of Isleworth and they dedicated this particular adaptation of the language of flowers genre to Cardinal Wiseman of Westminster. The hand-colored floral grouping that is the frontispiece is signed "Gumley House." The text is organised as an alphabetical listing of flowers with each flower's meaning and Latin name followed by a brief descriptive text. A poem ,"Jesus and The Flowers," appears at the end of the text along with separate indexes by flower names and "significations".   Small 8vo (15 x 11.4 cm); hand-colored frontispiece + xii + 166 pp. with numerous floral text decorations from engravings.            Original blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignette on upper cover and gilt lettering on spine, extremities bumped, spine a bit dulled; a.e.g.; lacks front fly leaf; text clean and tight. $80.00

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