Peony Valentine's Day IncrediMail Letter

The peony, China's national flower, is called shaoyao by the Chinese, which means "medicinal herb plant". Incidentally, the name peony perhaps also comes from Paion, Homer's physician of the gods.
The root of some form of paeonia officinalis was the most precious part to the early Chinese. At a Spring festival, you would hand a peony root to your sweetheart as a kind of love-potion:
›› Ask with a lovely peony: "Wilt thou be my Valentine?". (IncrediMail)