COLDNESS. 
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aocence They please by their fine and musky odour, 
,e bones exhaled from their white blossoms in the au- 
ne red, tumnal months. ’Tis said to he a native of 
util tie Barbary, and is found wild in the hedges and 
“if the thickets of the kingdom of Tunis. This 
ted, tie plant seems full of caprice. It languishes 
icentrif suddenly in situations which at first appeared 
to be most favourable to its growth,_one 
year it displays innumerable bouquets, and 
the next it may not flower at all. 
CHASTITY. 
ich the ORANGE FLOWER. 
nble ®; It is a custom in France for the newly 
r, » married to wear a head dress of orange flow¬ 
ers. Formerly a dishonoured girl was de¬ 
prived of this ornament on her wedding-day ; 
and this usage still exists in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Paris. 
COLDNESS. 
TO LIVE WITHOUT LOVE. 
AGNUS CASTUS. 
Dioscorides, Pliny, and Galen, inform us 
that the priestesses of Ceres formed their 
