106 DROPS PROM FLORA’S CUP. 
of spring, -when it budded forth and was covered 
with flowers. 
She had profited by her lover’s lessons, and now 
cultivated her highly-prized jasmine with care, for 
which she was amply repaid by its rapid growth. 
The poverty of the lovers had been a bar to their 
union; now, however, she had amassed a little 
fortune by the sale of cuttings from the plant which 
love had given her, and bestowed it, with her hand, 
upon the gardener of her heart. The young girls 
of Tuscany, in remembrance of this adventure, 
always deck themselves, on their wedding-day, 
with a nosegay of jasmine; and they have a prov¬ 
erb, that ‘ she who is worthy to wear a nosegay 
of jasmine is as good as a fortune to her husband.’ 
