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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
near the hrook. To see them crowned with the 
flowers that line its hank, you would take them 
for Nymphs holding their revels in honour of 
the Naiad of the Enchanted Oak. 
For some years this little flower has heen 
cultivated in France with the greatest care, 
and it finds a ready sale in the markets of Paris. 
Phillips recommends its cultivation for the 
same purpose in this country, particularly to 
cottagers who live near towns; “ as, hy trans¬ 
planting the trailing branches from their bor¬ 
ders into small pots, they would find it a profit¬ 
able employ to send them to market, for few 
people would withstand the temptation to pur¬ 
chase these interesting flowers, that carry in 
their eye the tale of Forget-me-not.” 
The same writer says he has heen informed 
that “ the decoction or the juice of this plant 
has the peculiar property of hardening steel; 
and that, if edge-tools of that metal he made 
red-hot, and then quenched in the juice, and 
this process he repeated several times, the steel 
will become so hard as to cut iron, and even 
stone, without turning the edge.” 
