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IMPATIENCE. 
BALSAM, 
Tuis plant, which is one of the most beau- 
tiful and delicate of popular annuals, is a native 
of East India, and forms a showy cone of car- 
nation-like flowers finely variegated. It pos- 
sesses the peculiar property of retaining, during 
the hottest months of summer, all its freshness 
and beauty, while many other plants are withered 
before they have flowered. It has been named 
Nolitangere and Impatiens, from the curious fact 
that when the seeds are ripe, they are thrown 
with considerable force out of the capsules on 
their being slightly touched ; on this account 
it has been made the emblem of impatience. 
The Turks use it to represent ardent love. 
IMPORTUNITY. 
BURDOCK. 
Tue burdock is an inhabitant of road-sides 
and ditch-banks, and is equally common in 
Europe and Japan. When once it has become 
transplanted into good ground, it is very diffi. 
cult to be eradicated; every one knows its 
bristly fruit, which attaches itself to our clothes 
in an importunate manner. 

