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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
In the Floral games at Toulouse, the prin¬ 
cipal prize was a golden Amaranth for the best 
lyric composition. 
The species of Amaranth called Tricolor, a 
native of the East Indies, is admired on account 
of the variegated colours of its leaves, resem¬ 
bling, as Gerard tells us, the splendid feathers 
of a parrot, with its stripes of red, yellow, white, 
green, &c. The Amaranthus hypochondriacus, 
one of the American species, is better known 
by the name of Prince’s Feather. The leaves 
of most of the species of this plant are used in 
hot countries as culinary vegetables: but they 
are not equal to spinach, which they somewhat 
resemble. 
