retreat, we hail it with more delight than the most gaudy 

 flowers of fashion of the day. Such a one is the Tangier 

 Pea, hardy in constitution, beautiful in form, rich in colour, 

 admirably adapted for every purpose to which a climbing 

 plant is useful, an inhabitant of our Gardens a hundred 

 and fifty years ago, but never now to be seen. For this 

 reason we reproduce it, from a specimen growing in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society in 1830, where its 

 natural hardihood of character enabled it to brave in se- 

 curity a season that was fatal to many of the beauties of 

 India, Mexico, and North-western America. 



A native of Barbary. J. L. 



