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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
SWEET-SCENTED TUSSILAGE. 
JUSTICE SHALL BE DONE TO YOU. 
Although this plant is a native of Italy, it 
remained unknown till the present century, 
when M. Villan, a skilful botanist of Grenoble, 
was attracted by its delightful fragrance at the 
foot of Mount Pilatus, in Switzerland, whence 
he brought it to perfume the winter gardens of 
■ our continental neighbours. It ca st its first odour 
on the British shore in 1806, and it has become 
so far naturalized to our climate as to discharge 
its fragrance over our walks in winter, as freely 
as the mignionette of Egypt does in summer. 
Thus, genius, hidden beneath a modest exte¬ 
rior, is not discerned by the vulgar; but, if it 
once meets the eye of an enlightened judge, its 
powers are revealed, and it commands the ad¬ 
miration of those who, with stupid indifference, 
perceive in it nothing extraordinary. A young 
miller in Holland, having a taste for painting, 
exercised it at leisure-hours in portraying the 
