‘_ “eee, > baa See, ee Oe. 
COBDNESS, 63 
They please by their fine and musky odour, 
exhaled from their white blossoms in the 
autumnal months. ’Tis said to be a native of 
Barbary, and is found wild in the hedges and 
thickets of the kingdom of Tunis. This plant 
seems full of caprice. It languishes suddenly 
in situations which at first appeared to be most 
favourable to its growth, one year it displays 
innumerable bouquets, and the next it may not 
flower at all. 
CHASTITY. 
ORANGE FLOWER. 
Ir is a custom in France for the newly mar- 
ried to wear a head dress of orange flowers. 
Formerly a dishonoured girl was deprived of this 
ornament on her wedding-day ; and this usage 
still exists in the neighbourhood of Paris. 
merase 
COLDNESS. 
TO LIVE WITHOUT LOVE. 
AGNUS CASTUS. 
Dioscoripes, Pliny, and Galen, inform us 
that the priestesses of Ceres formed their vir- 








