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WALL-FLOWER 
“ This is the interesting flower with which 
the romance-writers embellish all their decay¬ 
ing battlements, falling towers, and monastic 
ruins, and it seems as necessary to their 
stories as the dark ivy, the screeching owl, 
and the gliding spectre itself. 
“ We possess but few flowers that adorn the 
garden so gaily and so sweetly as the Wall¬ 
flower ; the green of its foliage is of the most 
agreeable tint, and endures through the win¬ 
ter, often treating us with its fragrance and 
showy petals, amongst the earliest and latest 
flowers that blossom; and when planted in 
clumps of six or ten plants each, the effect is 
both gay and agreeable.” 
