Flowers

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seeras almost too gross a mediuni. - Hillard. The silver 3 cent piece, once familiar at the counters of postoffioes, was authorized by act of congress March 8, 1851, and its coinage was begun the same year. lts coinage was discontinued Feb. 12, 1873;