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lANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
SWEET-SCENTED TUSSILAGE. 
JUSTICE SHALL BE DONE TO TOU. 
Although this plant is a native of Italy, it re¬ 
mained unkno-wn until the present century, when 
M. Villan, a skilful botanist of Grenoble, was at¬ 
tracted by its delightful fragrance at the foot of 
Mount Pilatus, in Switzerland, whence he brought 
it to perfume the winter gardens of our continental 
neighbours. It cast its first odour on the British 
shore in 1806 , and it has become so far naturalized 
to our climate as to discharge its fragrance over our 
walks in winter, as freely as the mignonette of Egypt 
does in summer. 
Thus genius, hidden beneath a modest exterior, is 
not discerned by the vulgar ; but if it once meets 
the eye of an enlightened judge, its powers are re¬ 
vealed, and it commands the admiration of those 
who, with stupid indifference, perceived in it nothing 
extraordinary. A young miller in Holland having 
a taste for painting, exercised it at leisure hours in 
portraying the scenery amidst which he lived. His 
