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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
that good strong cloth may he made from the 
fibrous bark of its flower-stalks. In 1821 , two 
hundred and eighty acres of land near Flint, in 
Wales, were planted with the common Holly¬ 
hock for this manufacture; in the process of 
which it was discovered that the plant yields a 
fine blue dye, equal in beauty and permanence 
to the best indigo. 
