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Show Queer Uees for the Crocus. The crocus It nowadays hold to lustlfy Its existence by tti beauty, but In bygone centuries It was cultW rated with an eye to profit Its saffron jelng In high demand both at an iromatlc and as a flavoring for cakes . ind pies. A distinction of crocus ilossoms, also, was held to be good or strengthening the lungs and heart, ind as a preventive of plague. 10 v I- ' lence of the flower's commercial ralu survives In the name of the ihlflf center of Its cultivation. 8af- ron Walden, but saffron nowadays la appreciated only by the sparrowt, rbo wreck the crocuses to obtain It. 1 |