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THE MORAL OF FLOWERS. 
valleys and cultivated plains of merry England. It is 
thus regarded in the Prophecy of Jeremiah, chap. vii. 
v. 6., where, a curse being proclaimed against the “ man 
who maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth 
from the Lord,” it follows. 
“ He shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when 
good coineth ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in 
a salt land and not inhabited.” 
And again, when the prophet foretells the destruction 
of Moab, he says, 
“ Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.” 
Intimating, very forcibly, that as “ the heath in the 
wilderness ” “ is out of the reach of observation and 
discovery, to what a remote distance it would be 
necessary for the Moabites to fly to escape the danger 
which threatened them.” 
The common ling, which, together with the cross¬ 
leaved and Cornish heaths, makes up the little group 
in the accompanying figure, grows freely on the yet 
uncultivated wastes of England, particularly in West¬ 
moreland and Cumberland. 
