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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
the poor it only yields a scanty fuel and a bitter 
fruit. 
Naturalists and physicians especially have 
gratuitously conferred on this native of India 
a thousand good qualities which it does not 
possess. This beautiful tree, like the rich on 
whom it lavishes its shade, obtains flatterers ; 
and thus, like them, does some good in spite of 
itself; while it astonishes the vulgar by a dis¬ 
play of useless profusion. 
By some it has been regarded as an emblem 
of modesty and chastity. 
