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EXCESS IS DANGEROUS. 
SAFFRON. 
A siticut infusion of saffron is agreeably sti- 
mulating; but if taken in excess it produces 
madness. It is said to have been brought to 
England in the reign of Edward IIT., and intro- 
duced to Walden in Essex, from which that town 
derives its prenomen. It was cultivated there, 
and in the counties of Cambridge, Suffolk, and 
Herefordshire, in the early part of the seven- 
teenth century. It is now, however, cultivated 
only in Essex. The flowers are gathered in 
September ; the yellow stigmas and part of the 
style taken out, and dried ona kiln between 
layers of paper, under the pressure of a thick 
board, to form the mass into cakes. 
