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IRS, VALERIAN. 125 
The Valerian is too large and scrambling a 
plant to hold a place in the parterre of choice 
flowers; besides which, cats are so fond of the 
smell of its blossom as to be attracted to it, and 







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“| by rolling over the plant to destroy its beauty, 
tral as well as that of the contiguous flowers. They : 
le tl, are equally fond of its root, which has a dis- 
~ agreeable smell: they will roll on it and gnaw 
Lita it to pieces with ecstatic delight; and it seems 
geno to produce in them a kind of pleasing intoxica- 
ve bees tion. 
the si The root of the Valerian is considered as a 
h are oes valuable remedy for many of those ailments 
visi dis which luxury engenders in the human frame; 
exerting a peculiar influence on the nervous 
th ae system, reviving the spirits, and strengthening 
ts old Be the sight. 
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