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celery. She had heard that some plants produced 
deadly sleep if eaten while the sap was ascending 
in the spring of the year, but were only pleasantly 
aromatic when it had been elaborated in the leaves 
through which the sleepy qualities passed into the 
air. She knew that the beautiful G illy Flowers, 
Hesperides and Candytufts, were of the same fam¬ 
ily as those useful friends of the table, and yet they 
all possessed qualities which were not agreeable, 
but which God had given them to be used in the 
right time and place. Mary knew indeed, from all 
that the flowers had told her as she walked through 
the fields and the garden, even from the tall trees that 
had bent over and spoken to her as she sat beneath 
their shade, that not a plant grew on the beneficent 
earth, which was not created for the good as well 
as the pleasure of man. Indeed, the whole earth 
seemed to her to be full of God’s goodness. The 
