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III at account frequently used to flavour dainty 
dishes, as well as wine and other liquors. Thus, 
so early as the time of Edward III., Chaucer 
says : 
Then springen herbis grete and smale, 
The licoris and the setewale, 
And many a clove gilofre, 
-to put in ale, 
Whether it be moist or stale. 
And Shakspeare makes Perdita say : 
The fairest flowers o’ the season 
Are our carnations and stream’d gilliflowers. 
Those beautifully painted flowers, the Indian 
Pink and the Sweet-william, belong to this fa¬ 
mily. 
Matthisson, a German writer, describes a 
scene witnessed by him near Grenoble in France, 
which must deeply interest every heart capable 
of sympathizing in the feelings of parting lovers. 
“Not far from Susa, where the road of the 
Cenis begins to ascend, there is a chapel dedi¬ 
cated to the Blessed Virgin. Before the simple 
altar, surrounded by vases of flowers, where the 
image of the Virgin was faintly lighted by a 
single lamp, knelt a girl of about eighteen, 
