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Water- Lily not only closes its flower in the evening, 

 but sinks under the surface of the water, as if to take 

 its rest in its natural element, and in the returning 

 day lifts its head again erect to expand its inflorescence 

 to the sun. 



ENTIRE-LEAVED POLONY. This plant is 

 named after Paeon, a famous physician of antiquity. 

 It blossoms in May and June ; it is a native of several 

 parts of Europe, and Dr. Smith supposes it also to be 

 a native of England. There are five species of this 

 genus, and this, which is here represented in its wild 

 state, is probably, when cultivated, the double-leaved 

 Paeony of our gardens. There is a superstitious opinion 

 prevails concerning the efficacy of the root of this plant 

 to facilitate the growth of children's teeth : bits of it 

 are dried and rubbed smooth, and strung, and sold by 

 the name of Anodyne Necklaces, for that purpose. 



TEA TREE. This plant is a native of China and 

 Japan, and in those countries only cultivated for use. 

 In China it is cultivated in the open fields in every la- 

 titude between Canton and Pekin ; but the best tea is 

 said to grow in a mild and temperate climate in the 

 country about Nankin. It delights in sloping banks 

 of hills facing the south, especially in the neighbour- 

 hood of rivers and rivulets. 



In Japan the tea which is most esteemed grows in 

 the neighbourhood of a small town called Udsi, situ- 

 ated near the sea. Here is a celebrated mountain of 



