I LOVE YOU. 
INFATUATION. 14-5 
tletoe.’ So spake Friga. Loake immediately 
ran and found the plant, and entering the as¬ 
sembly of the gods, while they were fighting 
against the invulnerable Balder (for their 
games are combats), he approached the blind 
Heda. * Why,’ said he, ‘ do you not contend 
with the arrows of Balder ? ’ ‘ I am blind,’ he 
answered ‘ and have no arms.’ Loake pre¬ 
sented to him the mistletoe, and said ‘ Balder 
is before thee.’ The blind Heda discharged 
the arrow, and Balder fell pierced and slain. 
Thus, the invulnerable offspring of a goddess 
was killed by an arrow of mistletoe, shot by a 
blind man.” Such is the origin of the respect 
borne by the Gauls towards this shrub. 
I LOVE YOU. INFATUATION. 
PERUVIAN HELIOTROPE. 
This evergreen trailer is a native of Peru, 
and hears beautiful lilac-coloured flowers ; 
and, in the greenhouse, continues in bloom 
nearly the whole of the year. 
The Orientals say that the perfumes of the 
heliotrope elevate their souls towards heaven ; 
it is true that they exhilarate us, and produce 
a degree of intoxication. The sensation pro¬ 
duced by inhaling them, may, it is said, be 
renewed by imagination, even though years 
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