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SWEET REMEMBRANCES. 
in consequence. We regard them as a dainty 
dish, but we ought to use them with great 
caution. Before using them they should be 
exposed to the heat of boiling water ; this 
will ascertain their quality, as if they are 
not of a good kind their perfume will be eva¬ 
porated. 
SWEET REMEMBRANCES. 
PERIWINKLE. 
. Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, 
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; 
And ’tis my faith that every flower 
Enjoys the air that breathes. 
WORDSWORTH. 
There is an agreeable softness in the de¬ 
licate blue colour of the periwinkle, and a 
quietness in the general aspect of the flower, 
that appears to harmonize with the retired 
situations where it loves to grow. It pre¬ 
fers the shady banks of the grove rather 
than to meet the meridian sun in the society 
of the gay plants of the parterre. 
In France the flower has been made em¬ 
blematical of the pleasures of memory, from 
the circumstance of Rousseau’s saying, in 
one of his works, that as he and Madame 
Warens were proceeding to Charmettes, she 
