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diately ran and found the plant, and entering 
the assembly of the gods, while they were fight- 
ing against the invulnerable Balder (for their 
games are combats), he approached the blind 
Heda. ‘Why,’ said he, ‘do you not contend 
with the arrows of Balder?’ ‘Iam blind,’ he 
answered, ‘and have no arms.’? Loake pre- 
sented to him the mistletoe, and said, ‘ Balder 
is before thee.” The blind Heda discharged 
the arrow, and Balder fell pierced and slain. 
Thus, the invulnerable offspring of a goddess 
was killed by an arrow of mistletoe, shot by a 
blind man.” Such is the origin of the respect 
borne by the Gauls towards this shrub, 
wrenannr nan 
I LOVE YOU. INFATUATION. 
PERUVIAN HELIOTROPR, 
Tuts evergreen trailer is a native of Peru, 
and bears beautiful lilac-coloured flowers ; and, 
in the greenhouse, continues in bloom nearly 
the whole of the year. 
The Orientals say that the perfumes of the 
heliotrope elevate their souls towards heaven ; 
it is true that they exhilarate us, and produce 
a degree of intoxication. The sensation pro- 
duced by inhaling them, may, it is said, be 
renewed by imagination, even though years 
have passed away after the reality was expe- 
rienced. 
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