78 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
to the poor it only yields a scanty fuel and a bitter 
fruit. 
Naturalists and physicians especially have gra- 
tuitously conferred on this native of India a thousand 
good qualities which it does not possess. This 
beautiful tree, like the rich on whom it lavishes 
its shade,' obtains 'flatterers ; and thus, like them, 
does some good in spite of itself; while it astonishes 
the vulgar by a display of useless profusion. 
By some it has been regarded as an emblem of 
modesty and chastity. 
