but it wants the wool in which the flower-buds of that species 

 are enveloped. 



What its native country may be I am unable to ascertain; 

 it is said by Reichenbach to have received its name from 

 Professor Besser ; but it is not noticed in that writer's Enu- 

 meration of the plants of Podolia, Bessarabia, and other 

 dismemberments of the ancient kingdom of Poland, nor do 

 I find a trace of it in any book except Reichenbach's Enume- 

 ration, above quoted. 



I have only seen it in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it was received from the late Mr. Fischer, of 

 the Gottingen garden, under the name here adopted. 



It is a very showy hardy perennial, growing three or four 

 feet high in any good garden soil, and flowering freely from 

 June to August. 



It is increased freely by division of the old plant when 

 in a dormant state, or by seeds, which should be sown in the 

 spring ; the seedlings will not flower before the second 

 season. 



It is rather a straggling plant if left to nature; but if 

 tied up rpgularly to a stake, it makes a beautiful object in a 

 flower garden. 



