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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
the Swedish hero, a delicate compliment to the 
bride, who was a professed admirer of his cha¬ 
racter. According to a statement published some 
years since, this magnificent volume, which was 
called, after the name of the lady, the Garland 
of Julia, was disposed of, in 1784, at the sale of 
the Duke de la Valliere’s effects, for fifteen 
thousand five hundred and ten livres, (about 
£C50,) and is now in England. 
Plants may in many respects be regarded as . 
beings closely allied to man, and they frequently 
exercise an important influence over us. The 
following remarks on this subject suggested 
themselves to Matthisson, the German poet, 
while journeying along the Cosato Domo d’Os- 
sola. “ The beautiful Cyclamen, which blooms 
along both sides of the road, continually re¬ 
minded me of the delightful summer day which 
I spent in company with Salis and his wife, at 
a shepherd’s hut in the neighbourhood of Ma- 
lans, where for the first time I saw this flower 
growing wild. I have never since beheld the 
Cyclamen without being reminded of the beloved 
friends with whom I first plucked and examined 
it, and of the smiling landscapes with which we 
