the natural fituation of any plant approaches to thefe the more 

 impatient of heat and clole air it will be found to be : thofe 

 therefore who wifh to cultivate the products of the tropical 

 countries with fuccefs, fliould endeavour to learn from their 

 collectors and correfpondents, the elevation at which each in- 

 dividual is found to thrive mod. 



Dr. Anderson, who has the management of the King's Bo- 

 tanical Garden at St. Vincent's, in a letter to E. Woodford, 

 Efq. Vauxhall, makes the following query : " Do you not deftroy 

 many tropical plants in your hot-houfes, by giving them a degree 

 of heat, for which you cannot admit an adequate proportion of 

 air ? Many of the moft rare and beautiful produces of thefe 

 iflands naturally thrive where the heat never exceeds 70° 

 many at 64° of Far en pie it. At the garden not three-quarters 

 of a mile from the fea, it is efteemed very hot if the thermo- 

 meter exceed 84 , yet here I find our alpine plants are the 

 moil; difficult of all others to preferve, merely from the in- 

 creafed temperature of the atmofphere." 



This plant is eafily raifed from feeds, which mull be pro- 

 cured from abroad, as it never, we believe, ripens any in this 

 country. "We remember to have feen it in great perfection 

 at the late Dr. Pitcairn's at Iflington. 



Introduced by Mr. Gordon of Mile-End in 1766. Flowers 

 moil part of the winter. 



