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changed her rival into a plant, which seems 
to comprehend in its double flavour the 
coldness of fear and the warmth of love. 
This plant we cultivate by the name of 
Peppermint, to which we are indebted for 
the cordial water and lozenges named after 
it. 
Weakness, Musk plant. This plant has so mild 
and delicate a scent, that it is agreeable even 
to persons who have a particular dislike to 
musk. 
Wisdom, White Mulberry-tree. The ancients 
called the White Mulberry the wisest of trees, 
because it is very late before it unfolds its 
leaves, in which respect it is the reverse of 
the almond-tree. A spray of the almond-tree 
tied up with one of the mulberry intimates 
that wisdom ought to temper activity. 
You are cold, Hortensia. The Hortensia is a 
plant of recent introduction into our European 
gardens. Though its clusters of flowers are 
alternately tipped with white, red, and purple, 
though its general figure is showy, and it 
looks well in a room; still the eye soon tires 
