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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
springs up very soon after it is sown, and 
blossoms within ten weeks. As the flowers 
are but short-lived, if you would enjoy them 
for any length of time, you ought to keep 
sowing them from March till August. Nothing 
can be more delightful than the red, white, 
and purple tints of these flowers, which give 
out a most fragrant smell. 
Prosperity , Beech. The beech may be con¬ 
sidered as the rival of the oak for beauty of 
form and the utility of its wood. It grows in 
any situation, and shoots up with such rapidity 
that it is common to say you may see it 
grow. 
Protection , Juniper. Page 258. 
Purity, Star of Bethlehem. Nothing can be 
more pure and pleasing than the appearance 
of this lovely plant, which throws up in the 
month of June a long bunch of star-like 
flowers, as white as milk. 
Rarity, Mandrake. The ancients attributed 
extraordinary virtues to the Mandragora, or 
Mandrake, but, as they have not left any accu¬ 
rate description of this plant, we know not the 
