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that strict iniunct;ons were given to his gardener not to give slip. nor so much as single flower, to any person: To thlS command the. gardener would have been faithful, had not the god of love wounded him by the sparkling eyes of fair' but Dortionless peasant, whose gwant of little dowry, and his poverty, alone kept them from the hymenial alter. On the birth, day of his mistress, the gardener presented her with nose-gay: and to render the bouquet more acceptable, he ornamented it with branch of jasmine. The P00erG FSgzia, wishing to preserve the bloom of this rare flower, put it into fresh earth 1; the branch remained green all the year, and in the following spring it grew' and was covered with flowers; and 1t flourish ed and multiplied so much under the fair nymph's cultivation, that she was able 10 amass little fortune from the sale ot the precious gift which her love had made her j; when, with sprig of jasmine in her breast' she bestowed her hand and her wealth on the happy gardener. And the Tuscan girls to this day, preserve the remembrance ot this adventure, by invariably wearing a nose-gay on their wedding day; and they have a proverb, which says, "That a young Unworthy of wearing nosegay' IS

 rich enough to make the fortune of good husband"