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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
to the poor it only yields a scanty fuel and a bitter 
fruit. 
Naturalists and physicians especially have gra¬ 
tuitously conferred on this native of India a thousand 
good qualities which it does not possess. This 
beautiful tree, like the rich on whom it lavishes its 
shade, obtains flatterers'; and thus, like them, does 
some good in spite of itself; while it astonishes the 
vulgar by a display of useless profusion. 
By some it has been regarded as an emblem of 
modesty and chastity. 
