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the sun, and then pray before it, and fold up his mat increasing troops to it, and sit and sing and play the 
again and go home. And the next night, and night guitar or lute before it, and they would all together 
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PERSIAN LOVE OP FLOWERS. 
the Persian’s love for flowers. In 
Very beautiful is 
Bombay the mhm 
P arsces use BHm 
the Victoria p $« il 
Gardens to ll |8fjj 
walk in, “to ||j||||| 
eat the air ” ■.' j|Wvj 
—“ to take ff|||||| 
a constitu¬ 
tional,” as -$K/ 
we say. 
Their en- ||||||| 
joyment of 
it is heart- M?s§M 
ily animal. |||||||| 
The Hindu Hi 
would stioll nHggg 
unsteadf&st- B|Wp 
ly through l%|fp 
it, attracted §&« 
from flower 
to flower, Balllll 
not by its (gll|f 
form or col- jfB|3| 
or, but its jgBljl 
scent. He ijjjjjjj 
would pass Sgiffl 
from plant 8Bpil|l 
to plant, IjSl|l 
snatching at gB§g| 
the flowers 1||||| 
and crush- 
iug them f’-ffiA 
between his i- _ . 1 , 
fingers, an l fflBjhS 
taking stray |M||| 
sniffs at the ||B|i 
ends of his 1 |B| 
fingers, as if L’ '''Vkj. 
he were tab- i| BHH 
i n g s n u ff. wm 
His plea s MpH 
ure in t'.' - 'iWlf 
flowers was Hlfll 
utterly seu- fiflM 
sual. Pres- ,-.' ■ 
eutly, atru |p|jg§ 
Persian, in hA-i^u 
his flowing /'- . 
robe of blue, 
and on hi j B BB 
h e a d his §S^s5 
sheepskin ®M§M 
hat, “black, wSBaBj 
glossy, curl’d IffifiH 
the fleece or 
Kara-Kul,” BBS 
would saun jjBjf 
ter in, and P=sS 
stand and - br ; 
m e d i t a t e sssn 
over every =555 
flower he -A-V 
saw, and al- d5S= 
ways as if 5S5 
half in vis- - y 
ion. And 
when at last 25TW 
the vision tr;— 
was fulfilled Queer Acquaintances. Who’s This. 
and the ideal flower he was seeking found, he would after night, until that particular flower faded away, article of sale, hut 
spread bis mat and sit before it until the setting of he would return to it, and bring his friends in ever this city, and sent 
again 
and again 
every even¬ 
ing until the 
flower died. 
Sometimes, 
by way of 
a gran d 
finale, the 
whole com¬ 
pany would 
suddenly 
rise before 
the flower, 
and seren¬ 
ade it, to¬ 
gether with 
an ode from 
Hafiz, and 
depart. 
This is 
the true ses- 
tlietic en¬ 
joyment of 
flowers, of 
which those 
can know 
little who 
in any way 
outrage the 
historical 
associations 
or their in¬ 
dividuality. 
Ferns.— 
In the up¬ 
town streets 
of this city, 
on pleasant 
days, what 
is called 
“Hartford 
Fern” is 
peddled ex¬ 
tensively. It 
is a creeper 
common in 
the woods of 
New Eng¬ 
land, and it 
is only with¬ 
in two or 
three years 
