THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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handle was made of the wood of the agnus castus, 
as a sure means of rendering their hearts insensible. 
In Dryden’s version of the Flower and the Leaf, — 
“Wreaths of agnus castus others bore; 
These last, who with those virgin crowns were dressed, 
Appeared in higher honor than the rest.” 
And their queen carried a branch of it for a sceptre. 
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